Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Your naive audacity in addressing the President in these terms: "He has called your bluff twice and twice you have backed down...
...Russian revolution is not a Mexican revolution; Lenine as a statesman is the superior of Huerta. He has called your bluff twice, and twice you have backed down. You can not shift the responsibility, Mr. President; Winston Churchill, British Minister of War, declared in the House of Commons on November 6 that "the government's policy is not wholly a British policy, but one carried out in full co-operation with all the Allies, including the United States, who are equally responsible." In the words of Raymond Robbins, "Your policy has resulted not in stamping Bolshevism out, but in stamping...
...officer. He was commissioned on November 27, 1917, in the Division of Military Aeronautics of the Air Service. Since then, and until his detachment to the University Corps, he has been serving with aviation recruiting squadrons in Texas and then at Garden City, Long Island. He is from Beach Bluff, Mass., and is 27 years...
...Wentworth Higginson," by Mr. E. Wentworth Huckel, more sympathetic and hero-workshiping than inspired. Next is a sonnet by Mr. E. E. Cummings, about as cryptic as undergraduate sonnets are apt to be, and that is saying a good deal. After this comes a fairly amusing and lively story, "Bluff," by "B." Mr. R. S. Mitchell's poem, which follows, "From the Arabian Nights," is the best verse in the number, a pleasing experiment with the difficult Spenserian stanza, though, as we say in "Composition," courses, conspicuous more for "elegance than force." "When the Suspenders Came Off," a seasonal sketch...
...private clubhouse, large or small, belongs to its members, except on invitation. The incongruity has been in there ever having been need to announce that a meeting would "be open only to members of the Union." And so there can be no complaint by men who cannot bluff their way into the presence of the scoreboard...