Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been present he would have been shot down like a dog by his enemies: the Diaz-Charnorro faction. President Coolidge observed en passant, that at the end of November, after spending some time in Mexico City, Dr. Sacasa went back to Nicaragua, landing at Puerto Cabezas, near Bragman's bluff (with an armed force...
...Illinois, ranking Republican of the Naval Affairs Committee, who was not present at the making of the Coolidge-Butler compromise, said: "If the bill does not appropriate for those three cruisers already authorized, the authorization for the ten additional ones would appear to the world as a big bluff...
...Habichtsburg ("Hawk's Castle") stood anciently upon a bluff near the confluence of the Rhine and Aar. From it the later Royal and Imperial House of Habsburg took its name almost 1,000 years ago. Once Holy Roman Emperors, at various later periods Emperors of Austria, Kings of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Spain and finally Emperors of Austria-Hungary, this potent family reached its apogee during the 68-year reign of the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary (born 1830, ascended 1848, died 1916). Last week the Hungarian press blazed with rumors that a kinsman of the "Grand Old Emperor...
...Bluff George" and "Old Tatt" owned jointly for several years the Tory Morning Post...
...Indiana you hear far more scathing denunciation of the Honorable Jim from prominent Republicans than you do from any Democrat. By outstanding men of his own party he is privately pictured as a blithering blatherskite, the most blatant bluff any State has sent to Washington in years- a disgrace to Indiana, a fraud and a faker...