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...person, he was short and rugged. His square white beard made him look " like the work of a cubist sculptor." He was little given to making speeches, but when he spoke his words were blunt, honest and logical. His manner and his habits were simple and old fashioned. It is recorded that for many years after he came into prominence Mrs. Nelson used to have the floors of their home sanded...
...President's message to Congress on Wednesday was neither over-optimistic nor saturated with normalcy. It was a blunt, matter-of-fact appeal for action to a Congress which has been distinguished for everything but its attention to business. Mr. Harding pointed to the two outstanding jobs to be done,--the funding of the British debt and the ship subsidy bill,--and called for a definite decision. Whether or not his reference to the latter was awkward or unwise, it was courageous and consistent and demanded a settlement on a piece of legislation which has kept shipping interests...
...perhaps find it hard to summon mentally and definite, unmistakable plot which we can thumb. The play is too rapid a frolic for that. And its plot is a bewildering melange of characters and incidents, as episodic carnival rather than a blunt sequence of cause and effect. We encounter no sex problems, no ouija jigglings; Moraleda is Medford, Mass.; or Spoon River before it became a cemetery...
...Colonel Roosevelt "average"? Not a bit. He is a real chip of the old block, combative, honest, direct--not to say blunt--like his father before him. His war record was first rate; his book is a good deal better than might be expected from an author of little literary experience. There is lots of the Roosevelt personality in the book, and lots of the First Division spirit. For some, and let us hope many readers, that should be sufficient recommendation...
...sporting writer in the Eastern cities topped his story of the game with heads such as, "Yale's Attack Proves Weak," "Elis Held for Downs." They said that, although Yale's defense was seemingly strong, it had been developed at the expense of its attack; that its attack was blunt and ineffective; that its aerial work was neglible; in short, that Doctor Sharpe had been unsuccessful in his work...