Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perhaps some of you men pretend to think that Russia is a Paradise. I shall call your bluff! If I can find one solitary man, at present unemployed, who will agree to go to Russia and live there for two years, I myself will pay for his passage and for that of his family...
Well pleased at this rhetorical flourish, Lady Astor descended from the platform prepared to make her exit from the hall in quiet triumph. Instead, unemployed males surged about her car, demanding that she fulfill her pledge-valiantly attempting to call the Rt. Hon. Lady's bluff. Upon reaching home, the harassed Viscountess was "deluged with letters...
Replied another: "Up to last week the Socialists have threatened to abstain from voting on the Pacts in the Reichstag, with the intention of calling the anti-Pact Nationalists' bluff that they would abstain from voting. The purpose of each group has been to make the other seem responsible for whatever the Reichstag does. Now the Socialists have taken the plunge. They intend to assume the responsibility and reap the rewards of making possible a coalition capable of ratifying the Pacts. Chancellor Luther has allegedly promised them that the present Cabinet will resign if and when the Pacts...
...TIME Red Bluff, Calif...
...Born 1841, son of the famed poet-doctor of the same name, Oliver Wendell Holmes served three years in the Civil War as an officer of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers, was wounded in the chest at Ball's Bluff, in the neck at Antietam, in the foot at Fredericksburg. He served 20 years as Associate and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, before being called to the U. S. Supreme Court by President Roosevelt...