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Neither is subtle, complex or daring. Whitney is a well-read man who likes to lace his speeches with literary allusions. Johnston (nobody calls him Al) is a plain, blunt man who almost never makes a speech, puts on a front of gruff irascibility...
Mikkola predicts that 60 points ought to be enough to win, which sent me scampering to the seclusion of Widener to figure out Harvard's chances on my fingers. To be blunt, their chances look quite good. Pete Harwood, Bob Clark, and Bill Jackson have been consistent winners ever since the season got under way and as yet they show no signs of weakening...
People Get Mad. His first cartoon for the P-D was an attack on wooden railroad coaches (it showed a coffin on rails). He has been wielding a blunt instrument ever since. As a result, he says: "An awful lot of people are goddam mad at me." In 1940 Fitz, his managing editor and the chief editorial writer were arrested in St. Louis because their savage pictorial attacks on civic lawlessness and injustice evoked the wrath of a judge...
Meanwhile, U.N. was forcing the U.S. and other countries to meet blunt purposes with something more than brave platitudes...
...scenes about the Yard, it shall be with enthusiasm; we shall mark the times and deeds with truth; and we shall look for the humanity in man. We will laugh, and let him protest whom the jester's sock pinches. We shall ask questions and they shall be blunt. Come with us, Veritas; we want your company, and we hope that you may profit from ours. We will have an answer ready when you ask, "Quo vadimus...