Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flew down to Puerto Rico last year was an evil one. Fifteen years with small-town Scripps-Howard papers, an excursion into the mail order insurance business, and, finally, the proprietorship of a chain of Florida papers which he opportunely flung on the Roosevelt bandwagon had failed to endow blunt, bald Mr. Gore with the tact and resource required of peppery Puerto Rico's Governor...
Elmer Eveland, one of the children, was always climbing fences. So Frank Lawton Hopler, a laundryman around the Sunshine Home, drew the blunt edge of a knife across Elmer's throat. That scared little Elmer off fences...
Last week's opinion was not the first of its kind for Judge Woolsey. A shy, scholarly, ponderous, blunt devotee of literature, the law, and what he calls "the art of small delights," he has been concerned with the legal nature of obscenity since 1931. In that year he ruled in favor of Dr. Marie Stope's Married Love. Three months later he rendered a favorable decision on her Contraception. He was the judge in famed plagiarism suits over Strange Interlude and Of Thee I Sing, in both of which he rendered decisions for the defendants. He earned...
Donald Richberg, eaglophile counsel of the NRA, promptly pooh-poohed this blunt setback: "The judge's remarks on the alleged unconstitutionality of the Recovery Act itself obviously do not carry any legal weight, since they were expressive of the jurist's personal view and did not constitute a ruling on a point...
...Purchasing Commission; of a heart attack; in Hinsdale, near Chicago. Born on a Wisconsin farm, he had only three months' schooling when he got a job with International Harvester, rose to a position which no other man outside of Chicago's McCormick family has held. A huge, blunt man, he made Washington hostesses and diplomats uneasy, advised his critics to go to Hell...