Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire French Cabinet outdid themselves in efforts to present the Hoover note in a favorable light to an angry and mistrustful Chamber of Deputies. Pa- tiently, tirelessly, Premier Pierre Laval explained and re-explained to the Chamber that President Hoover delivered no "ultimatum" to France. Repeatedly the alleged "abrupt" and "threatening" character of the President's proposals was flayed by Deputies. When Premier Laval, looking more than ever like a red-faced, perspiring butcher, soothingly observed, "Mr. Hoover has even sent Mr. Mellon to Paris," irate Deputy Franklin-Bouillon snapped: "The presence of Mellon is not an argument...
Tonight the Harvard Glee Club will break a tradition. They have been broken before, but this one is but another bleeding scalp hitchd to the trophy belt of an abstraction called House-Plan. In deserting the rather too abrupt staircase of a pillared and posted Widener, for the Georgian aplomb of Lowell House Quadrangle, the Glen Club will be more fittingly clad in the eloistored hue of Harvard's more usual garb. They will, too, bring melody where only the harsh clanging of dissonant bells has been before. More than that, their presence in the House Plan tonight suggests...
...blundering. In Germany a large section of the Press was indignant. Germania, the Cabinet organ, flayed "M. Briand's astoundingly sharp answer to a calm and purely objective speech by the German Foreign Minister." French Plan. The Curtius-Briand quarrel brought United-States-of-Europe talk to an abrupt halt. It also weakened the slender chance that the League Council (which can only act by unanimous vote) would be able to get anywhere with its May agenda. When the Council met, two days later, two of its biggest jobs were: 1) to prepare for the (League) World Disarmament Conference...
...swing back to the English department, an abrupt one not usually noted in statistics from University C, is to be explained as a return to "normalcy." Raising of the standards in this field several years ago, a change marked by inclusion in examinations of questions calling for marked ability in literary criticism., deterred many men from electing it; this year's figures indicate that the pendulum is now swinging the other...
...gallery sat the doctor who had tried to dissuade Mr. Snowden from speaking, the surgeon who recently tapped his infected bladder (TIME, March 16) and Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England (see col. i) with other bigwigs. For British businessmen the Budget is an abrupt life and death matter. New taxes decreed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Budget afternoon become effective on the morrow morn. One must look sharp...