Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easily make several times $12,500 a year. His standing with the Janizariat is ace high. Yet because his unswerving efforts in the Supreme Court fight and the Purge were known to be based more on loyalty than conviction, he stands almost as well with anti-Administrationists. Irish, homely, blunt, honest Joe Keenan has a few enemies, but they are mostly behind bars or under sod, like Machine-Gun Kelly...
Hailed as the No. i male cinema discov ery of 1938 for his performance as Mickey Borden in Four Daughters, Actor John Garfield is a blunt-featured young product of New York City's East Side and The Bronx. A problem child, he was sent at twelve to a school run by Angelo Patri, who allowed him to concentrate on dram atics and English...
...Rios, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S., no friend to clericalism in Spain, invited a number of U. S. Catholics to visit Loyalist Spain, see for themselves that there is today no religious persecution. Ambassador de los Rios received a prompt reply from one of the invitees, blunt, Irish-born Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore. Calling the Ambassador a "common, ordinary liar," the Archbishop said...
...mainly from a powerful tail wind: the hurricane force of the rising industrial middle class, with which he unequivocally aligned himself against the land-owning Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress" with social heaven. His real genius lay in his power of blunt statement -a talent that would have taken him far in journalism today. "An acre in Middlesex," said he, "is better than a principality in Utopia...
...club of nations this was carrying rebuke of a fellow member to the brink of unpleasantness. It appeared, however, to be just blunt enough to make Member Hitler understand. For two days there was silence from officials in Berlin. Then a Propaganda Ministry spokesman announced: "The incident now is closed. We had our say and the American Government...