Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beloved California, his Shriner tendencies sternly held in check by a wife who intends to make him U. S. Ambassador to France. Europe-junketing Senator Opal, a political Dry with a really horrible temper, who unluckily sent Mrs. Gedge a letter intended for his bootlegger, is to be the blunt, blackmailed instrument of Mrs. Gedge's scheme. "Soup" Slattery, hot on the trail of the Gedge jewels; Jane Opal, who thinks she wants an intellectual beau but really fell for Packy when she saw him play for Yale; the Vicomte de Blissac, continuous sufferer from a most unGallic thirst...
After the close of business June 30, officers & clerks of each & every one of the 6,800 national banks began to marshal blunt columns of Arabic numerals for which U. S. Comptroller John William Pole was anxiously waiting in Washington. Though it was the first call he had issued this year, nearly all large banks had voluntarily published statements at the end of March. But no one knew better than Comptroller Pole the limited value of these statements in estimating the soundness of the general banking situation. Of all the assets listed by a bank only the items "Cash...
Though the German said of the Young Plan that all its promises have failed to come true, adding that Germany can pay no more Reparations, there was no quarrel. The Frenchman's equally blunt retort that Germany can and must pay something, was taken in good part by Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. Suddenly this onetime officer in the Kaiser's Army electrified Lausanne by proposing casually and unofficially "in American"* a military alliance between Germany and France...
Cheap, strong shoes stamped "Made in Czechoslovakia" have made blunt, ruthless Thomas Bat'a famed as the "Ford of Footwear" (TIME, Oct. 8, 1928). A few years ago he was opening modernistic shoe shops gaudy with chromium in such strange places as Jerusalem. Last week Thomas Bat'a sat down and dictated a rebuke to himself, published it next day in his newspapers...
...second administration. ... A primer for voters might well begin with the injunction 'Never trust a quoter.' ... I found:-'This reminds me of what Chesterton Keenly remarked. . . . Abraham Lincoln could say today. ... As Woodrow Wilson so wisely put it. ... I like Andrew Jackson's blunt statement that.' ... A careful tally reveals the following extracts: Woodrow Wilson, two; Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, two and G. K. Chesterton. . . . I should have added Patrick Henry. . . . I was minded to remark: 'Why don't you speak for yourself, Franklin...