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When he resigned as U.S. vice-consul in Toronto last fall, Frank Tinker bade Canada an unfond farewell. "I'm leaving Canada and I'm glad," Tinker wrote in a blunt article in Maclean's magazine. "It's going to be a great relief...
...Turks for Greek independence. There, at swampy Missolonghi, he died of fever at the age of 36, attended to the last by his devoted valet, William Fletcher. All others when they wrote of Byron rose to the occasion with polished words and well-turned phrases, but it was the blunt, semiliterate Fletcher who had the privilege of recording what he called that "fatal day which deprived England of its greatest ornament and me of the best of Masters...
This week's other dramatic standout was one of those ventures that seemed calculated never to come off. But it did. To blunt the sophisticated Philip Barry dialogue for living-room consumption, and to pick as heroine an actress so typed for guppylike roles as Dorothy McGuire, suggested in advance that it might be a bad idea to revive the 15-year-old Philadelphia Story for TV. But on CBS's Best of Broadway, Actress McGuire made an excellent Tracy Lord, tawny and yare, as the script said she should be. To help her through the comic...
...Senate, McCarthy said that he had never meant to offend anyone. "I admit," said he, "that at times I have been extremely blunt in expressing my opinions. I do not claim to be a master of words." But, lest anyone think he was really apologizing, he added: "In the facts and opinions that I held, I am unchanged." Then he made his motion to cut off debate after two more days. After hours of wrangling, the Senate agreed...
...ability, then, to predict which students are capable of college work is essential; now, Bender points out, "We have very blunt instruments, indeed, for prediction...