Word: arrant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deny that the management of Rockefeller Center does not dominate the union, that it did not help to form it, that it does not contribute, if not financial, which is most likely, at least some sort of "other" support to it? No wonder, with such arrant lawbreakers in charge, that the elevator boys in the Center did not rise in their might and shake their shackles...
...both are fearful, neither wants an out and out trial of strength. The cause of the Mongolian difficulties cannot be dismissed with a pat all-explanatory word. Stalin's mechanical-toy enunciation of "capitalism" as the fundamental basis is, to put it mildly, nothing but arrant nonsense. The causes are fundamentally economic; the Soviet has goods to sell and exploitation schemes to promote, and so has Japan. Imperialism can not longer be associated, Marxist fashion, with so-called capitalist countries alone...
...Seiyukai candidates in these circumstances to campaign against the Government mainly with the charge that it had not sufficiently punished a man for writing that His Majesty is the supreme organ of the Japanese State was arrant bluff & nonsense-even in Japan. No Japanese can successfully reduce to writing what the status of the Emperor is, any more than a Christian can be precise on the status of God. As the votes were being counted last week, two Japanese armed with a letter apparently signed by a magistrate got past Dr. Minobe's police guards, chased the savant...
...Japanese to the English. This theory might explain why the U. S. has never taken the Japanese seriously, likes to regard them as a comic-opera race. It might also partly account for the delicate sympathy of The Wooden Pillow, whose author is an Englishman. But even the most arrant xenophobe could find little to feed his fears on and much to touch his Western conscience in Carl Fallas' gossamer tale. Japanese travel bureaus would be shrewd to boost The Wooden Pillows sales. Cynics may suspect that the land Author Fallas writes of is more Utopian than Japanese...
...have darkened his journeys of late; and burdened the breakfast minds of his readers unduly. He must please get out into Nature and receive that all instructive impulse; he would do well to lead his followers with happy stories. Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an arrant jade on a journey...