Word: arrant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a few months ago, King Carol II picked a Premier, the late Octavian Goga, who was one of the most arrant reactionaries, Jew-baiters and oppressors of minority peoples in all Europe (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week the present Premier...
Last October the New York Times headlined a story: ALEKHINE'S MOVE STIRS CHESS FANS. This was no arrant sensationalism. Dutchman Max Euwe, chess champion of the world, was defending his title against One-time Champion Alexandre Alekhine. The move in question occurred in Haarlem during the sixth game of a 30-game peregrinating match (played in The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leyden, Delft). Dr. Alekhine opened with a queen's gambit and was met by a Slav defense. On his sixth move Dr. Alekhine suddenly offered to sacrifice a knight. Dr. Euwe nibbled his fingers and stared...
...these radical bonds they are forced to borrow it from the Government, paying interest on the loan. In Russia the financing of Five-Year Plans by forced loans is continually cleaning the pockets of the proletariat. In Germany moderate Adolf Hitler has greatest difficulty in restraining the arrant radicals of the Nazi Party led by such as Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels who continually agitate to persuade Der Führer to reshuffle the German capitalist economy drastically. Japan's new Cabinet is "opposed to such radical modern ideas as Fascism," its press officer announced in Tokyo last week. Italy...
...last few minutes of this afternoon will see hectic photographers streaming to the Fine Arts Guild with dripping prints for the judges. The fifty early entrants whose work has already come in, are thirty on the whole, as well as beforehand. Not even the most arrant egoist felt sure enough of winning a "large cash prize" to pay for more than three over the normal quota. Or perhaps six prints is all a photographer can bear to show at once...
...determination to draft and urge the enactment of specific laws for the benefit of French education, science and children. A heavy cross for Undersecretary for National Education Cécile Brunschvicg to bear is the fact that her immediate superior, Minister of National Education Jean Zay, is a most arrant Radical Socialist, author of perhaps the most defamatory poem ever written about a national flag, the red-white-&-blue French tricolor. It appears impossible for Mme Brunschvicg to keep French moppets from singing in school if they choose the amazing lines of M. Zay. Chorus...