Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another day he journeyed to Andover, Mass., for the150th anniversary of Phillips ("Andover") Academy. Here he said: "The standards which the student body sets are high. They want accuracy that is well-nigh complete. They apply the same standards to candor and honesty. Bluff and pretense may be permitted in the classroom, but in their relations with each other students regard such practices with contempt and those who resort to them are properly considered cheap. . . . When the world holds its examinations it will require the same standards of accuracy and honesty...
...helpful factor where a positive result is desired. So doubt is discarded and Mr. Mellon says that, when the Republicans meet at Kansas City, "we will not be merely selecting a candidate but in reality selecting a President." From Andrew William Mellon, that remark sounds more like conviction than bluff or optimism...
Damnation. That evening Prime Minister of Quebec Hon. Louis Alexandre Taschereau and Provincial Secretary L. Athanase David spoke long and loud before their public. They characterized the Lindbergh flight as unnecessary, as pure bluff, as U. S. publicity under the guise of charity. They declared there was plenty of anti-pneumonia serum to be had in Quebec. Said Spokesman David...
White men have confidence that they can bluff a Chinaman. Perhaps that fact explains why Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary proceeded, last week, to bluff the League of Nations. He knew that the Acting President of the League Council is now, by alphabetical rotation, His Excellency Tcheng Loh, the Chinese Minister at Paris...
Such was the epitaph awaiting Lee O'Neil Browne when, last week, stooping to avoid a low branch, he made a misstep on the narrow stone path at the edge of his bluff and plunged 50 feet into the Fox River, whose muddy waters whirled along half a mile (to their junction with the Illinois River) before"yielding the body...