Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bedford Manufacturers Association agreed. Then the textile unions rejected the proposal by a vote of 4 to 3. Still idle were 3,000,000 spindles, 50,000 looms. Mill workers continued to peddle fish. . . . Then the seven unions went to the polls again. Amid the yells of a blatant minority, they voted to accept the compromise. In the two leading unions the vote was close: weavers, 476 to 386; loom-fixers...
These words, though blatant, were important, and vitally significant. They meant that the British Conservative Party expects to win again by telling John Bull and his women that the Labor Party (Socialist) is a pack of "Reds." In 1924 the "Red" stigma was fastened upon Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, when the Conservatives released the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" on election eve. The "Letter" purported to show that Labor Leaders were receiving pay and orders from "Moscow." Today, after four years of pointing at the Red Bogey Man, the Conservatives and "Stability" Baldwin apparently believe that they can strike...
Ralph Adams Cram, Boston architect, medievalist, "high-church" Episcopalian. Reason: "To express my own disgust at the ignorance and superstition now rampant . . . this recrudescence of blatant bigotry...
Miner Clark was the first to discover the Butte copper veins. The first to develop them on a large scale was blatant, uncouth Marcus Daly. In 1879, a reduction plant was erected near Butte, saving the 400-mile overland haul. The next year, Irishman Daly began to make Butte roar. His men probed the earth night and day. Smoke poured out from 100 furnaces. Lumberjacks hacked down whole forests for timber to hold up excavations and tunnels...
...chef was the Rev. John Roach Straton, blatant Manhattan pulpiteer, who characterized Governor Smith, last fortnight, as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom." Challenged to debate the charge in his own Calvary Baptist Church (TIME, Aug. 20), Pulpiteer Straton weasled, tried to shift the scene to local amphitheatres. But Nominee Smith declined to make a public show. He wrote: "The answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would...