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...barn near Caimito, 22 mi. from the capital, the children's dismembered bodies were found. In that barn the police also found a crude altar of stones and seashells, a hideous statue of the Goddess Chango, and 28 half-crazed Negroes, two of them with bloody robes and blunt stone axes. The most intelligible of the prisoners, one Jose Delgado, described what had happened...
Lest the world grow too optimistic about German prospects, blunt Dr. Hans Luther, President of the Reichsbank, cautioned citizens of Frankfurt-am-Main last week...
...launched a campaign to occupy the rest. If all those "circumstances" were to be considered by the League another Lytton Report would have to be made, and by the time it was finished there would be fresh "circumstances." Angrily the Committee of Nineteen proceeded to pop a big, blunt question back at the Japanese Government, would they or would they not agree to restoration of Chinese sovereignty in Manchukuo as provided in Chapter IX of the Lytton Report...
...weekly Kiplinger letter, issued by Willard Monroe Kiplinger, is as speculative as the Cabinet guess. More typical are Kiplinger's shrewd and crackling appraisals of current news. These he gives in a blunt, crisp style tuned to his client...
...infinite credit, the authoress has succeeded in endowing her pages with intense, at times terrible, vitality. To be sure, there are none of the tricks which make for artful smooth writing. Rather, her approach is direct, blunt, similar one often remarks, to that of an oral narrator. But her character analysis and descriptive power are nonetheless shrewd, firm, displaying a startling insight...