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...this can be detected that delightful finesse of the French which makes French politics so absorbing and entertaining--and which is ordinarily so lacking in our own public affairs. There is, of course, the old tradition of blunt outspokenness, of terse, "businesslike" expression, of virile, ringing words. Without a doubt, this has great merit, and no little effect upon impressionable audiences. But it lacks "charm". For a long time, American politics have lacked charm. And this is most unfortunate. As the great need of politics today, according to any resume of authoritative opinion, is for clean-cut college men, some...
...Turner '27 downed Yamaguchi in 5 minutes and 31 seconds in the opening match, and after the defeat of H. M. Kullman '27 in an overtime match, J. C. Hinkle '27 won by decision, and Captain H. R. Wood '27 and D. H. Campbell '27 won falls. Blunt of Andover captured the last bout on decision from J. M. Dallavalle...
...held a reception, with music, speeches, refreshments. He made the newly-fledged, exalted citizens feel important. After only two years he was elevated to the Supreme Court, where his rugged personality lent a certain tonic atmosphere. He was impatient of refinement of argument, preferring by nature a certain blunt honesty of the intellect. He was one of the Justices who dissented when the Child Labor Law was first held unconstitutional. He broke the tradition of the Supreme Court that its members should make no public speeches. When invited to speak, he said what he had to say. As early...
Senator Norris: "In all the records of the diplomatic service there was never such a blunt letter [as Mr. Hughes' note to Tchicherin] sent to another nation by the United States...
...straightforward if rather blunt way of dealing with the situation of farmer dissatisfaction which confronts the Republicans in the Middle West. Wheat at $1.50 and $10 hogs are not his entire program. Said he to an interviewer : " The best thing that could happen to this country would be to have Congress not meet for three years, and have no State Legislature meet for four years...