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...them, Actor Arthur Macrae, thinks it more deliberate than careless: "After all, Charles is a funny-looking sort of fellow, and he knows it. There's no sense trying to have an air of an 18th century courtier when you look like that." Laughton, even blunter about his appearance, says flatly: "I have a face like the behind of an elephant...
Political problems were another headache. "In Forward from Liberalism I argued that Liberals must reconcile Communist social justice with their liberal regard for social freedom, and . . . accept the methods . . . necessary ... to defeat Fascism." In blunter words, Spender became a Communist, and went off to Civil War Spain for the London Daily Worker...
Then came the time when bayonets were superseded by other, blunter weapons. In a single air raid five years ago, a third of Solingen was reduced to rubble. "All we could salvage out of our ruins," recalled Junior Partner Wilhelm Lange of the cutlery firm of Wagner & Lange, "we put into a wheelbarrow." Part of the wheelbarrow's load was a steel filing case containing some recent orders...
...Congress big guns. Prime Minister Nehru, who seldom intervenes in local elections, sent a message endorsing faithful Suresh Das, decrying Bose's tactics: "I fail to see how unbalanced attacks on Congress and destructive criticism can help the country in any way." Deputy Prime Minister Sardarj Patel was blunter: "China, Malaya and Burma have all a lesson to teach us. If we fail to learn it, Bengal would be the first to suffer...
...burrowed away at Harry Truman's Fair Deal, item by item. Last week the item was rent control. The Administration wanted it extended until March 1951. Republicans argued instead for a wait-&-see extension to run only until July 1. Dixiecrat E. E. ("Goober") Cox of Georgia was blunter: "Continue controls for 90 days and then have the whole thing thrown out the window...