Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bearing up nobly. Although many an adman would not rate American Tobacco's account as No. 1 on his popularity Hit Parade, one R.&R. executive said: "We have not had more trouble than you would expect from an exacting client." An underling at F.C.&B. was blunter. Asked if it was true that the $3,000,000 plum had indeed dropped into F.C.&B.'s lap, the employe sighed: '"Yes, too true...
...desire to suppress news. ... If the incident . . . had promptly been disposed of and a truthful statement issued ... it probably would have been passed by as a happening following the difficult campaign in Sicily when nerves of officers and men had been severely strained." The Army & Navy Journal was even blunter: "General Patton [is] familiar with the Articles of War, and with the punishment of dismissal they prescribe for cruel treatment of a soldier or for conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the Service . . . [Patton] was not made subject to the Articles. . . . There are lessons to be drawn from...
This official biography, by the Dublin scholar Joseph Hone, is not by a good deal as great as its subject. Its polished-walnut elegance gives way now to dullness, now to Irish fanciness; its irony and its tact might occasionally have given way to blunter judgment. It goes into local minutiae tiresome to any save the hottest Hibernians. Its biographer cannot with detachment examine Yeats. Yet the book is so rich in its detailing of a significant life, and of the remarkable people who surrounded and shaped it, that it is unlikely that a more valuable work on Yeats will...
...Patterson's editorials are always bluntly to the point. But the News's 2,000,000 readers were startled by a Patterson editorial blunter than usual: "Congressman Holland: You are a liar. Make what you like of that...
...question in blunt terms-blunter than England ever likes to be-is whether Britain is going Socialist permanently. Last week a sign of this "revolution" loomed high above the horizon in the shape of Sir Stafford Cripps's well-molded head, lighted by his fierce black eyes. Sir Stafford, home from Russia, which he intensely admires in peace no less than in war, made clear that he proposed to be the head of the opposition to Churchill. With Englishmen saddened by their own defeats and praying for Red victories, Sir Stafford had a beautiful tactical position. Whether he would...