Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tale of a luckless boy who obeyed the moral laws but was manacled, body and spirit, by the statutes of man. A lonely newcomer in the city, he took a street-girl to a dance hall, where she was insulted and he accidentally killed the offender. The blunt ritual of the courts sent him to prison for ten years. There, in the cancerous association of evil men, he learned the criminal code. Six years later, when he happened to witness a murder within the prison walls, he refused to "squeal'' and was hurled to the dungeons...
...times disowned or retracted strategies they once commenced. Not Whitehead. He is conservative, a grandfather. He comes from Columbus, used to be president of Simplex Automobile Co. when it made cars you could not wear out. The word "Simplex" was cut deep on a triangle of brass on the blunt bonnet. As he grew older Mr. Whitehead felt that business interfered with his real passion; he gave up business. He runs his school, lectures and writes on bridge. His rates for ten lessons sent by mail is $10; personal tutoring runs much higher...
...shock last week. In William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Frazier Hunt, onetime War correspondent & Mexican sugar planter, wrote that at Berlin "only the other day" he had witnessed two German students fight, not a Schlägermensur or sport duel, wherein undergraduates belabor one another with large, blunt broadswords, but a secret, illegal Säbelmensur, oldtime insult duel, with sharp sabres...
...crew of a freighter do what they are told, ask few questions. But last week the German crew of the blunt-nosed broad-beamed Falke, reached the limit of cowed endurance. In Port of Spain, Trinidad, they begged the German consul to take action against their captain, before the dumpy little Falke should be sunk as a pirate...
...Smith Democrats led by Bishop James Cannon Jr. (TIME, July 8). Bishop Cannon has attempted to make the campaign issue: "Wet-Raskobism." Facts to point the Cannon issue: Prof. Pollard was supported by Governor Harry Flood Byrd, Brown Derby advocate, and had himself stumped for Governor Smith. Facts to blunt the Cannon issue: Both candidates are Dry; both candidates are Protestant...