Word: arrant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concealed rage of King George (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930), Australia was the first Dominion to demand and get a native governor general hand-picked by the Dominion. The Irish Free State followed when the arrant Republican Donal Buckley was given the job in 1932. Canada may be the next. Last week the Winnipeg Free Press pointed...
...other trick to stop tax evasions was announced by Mr. Morgenthau. Here after every taxpayer's return must be signed by the expert or lawyer, if any, who advised him in figuring his debt to the Treasury. Thus if arrant crockery is found, the lawyer responsible may be dis barred. Respectable lawyers will give their clients shyster advice only at the risk of their reputations. For this new tax wrinkle U. S. lawyers can thank Earle Bailie, partner in the banking house of J. & W. Seligman...
...year-old President still retains some grip on the State was seen when he appointed Lieut.-General Baron von Fritsch, an army officer of the old school, to be Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr, thus spiking rumors that the German Army would be turned over to that arrant Nazi queer, Captain Ernst Roehm, Generalissimo of Storm Troops...
...Tracy, as the newspaperman arrant, is in his element, perhaps a bit too much so. Apparently, he has talked as loudly in the studio as in the picture, with the result that some of the minor roles, notably that of Kate, are neglected. Exceedingly competent acting on the part of James Gleason, who plays Lefty, Thomas' assistant, and on the part of Una Merkel, who portrays the fickle femininity of the story, is enough to save the rather weak plot and the overemphasis on Mr. Tracy. The photography contains nothing unusual, except for the introduction of a former Pathe News...
Thus on Dec. 30, when Mr. Gandhi and Congress leaders are scheduled to meet in Allahabad to determine the Congress' future policy (possibly resumption of the Gandhite "passive resistance" boycott of British goods), they will find themselves branded in a large section of the British Press as arrant Reds...