Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honest Ignatz,"† though elected,** did not-according to gleeful correspondents-possess a dress shirt in which he could be inaugurated. Three days later-a shirt having been obtained and the ancient palace of the Polish kings well aired for the ceremony-he took the oath of office, while bluff brain-stormy Pilsudski lounged in a great carved chair, nearby, surrounded by his officers...
...enemies loved and made happy by Amherst. He held them in supreme contempt. He directed a subordinate: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race." Bluff, arrogant, forthright, Amherst is thus seen as a soldier of quite modern scientific resourcefulness, for all the eclipse that his military record suffered through the brilliancy of Wolfe, captor of Quebec...
That same day at Scotts Bluff, two pitiable figures, one of them with an empty sleeve dangling at its side, were dragged into the main street. A A rope was put around the neck of each and the free end was thrown over the cross bar of a lamp post. Strong arms pulled, the ropes slid over the bar, and the two figures hung inert and lifeless in midair. The crowd cheered...
...movie industry, Dr. Work stepped into the vacant Cabinet post, and a year later when Albert Bacon Fall left the shelter of the Cabinet, Dr. Work was made Secretary of the Interior. Recently Congress passed a bill lowering water charges on reclamation projects. The farmers of Scotts Bluff declare that Dr. Work as Secretary of the Interior agreed to let the collection of back charges wait until the reduced scale had been put into effect, then changed his mind...
...conservative temper of his Socialism was made evident from his speeches at that time: "As a Socialist I am averse to terror. I wish every man to see a brother in his neighbor." As everyone knows, Pilsudski remains a bluff, benevolent, illogical, fighting idealist...