Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pearls is to swish them through boiling water. As the pearls heat they will lose their moonbeam lustre, may crack and the wealthy lady will grow frantic. Yet last week all Japan honored a short, stocky, crinkly-faced old man who had rolled up his kimono sleeves, seized a blunt spade and vigorously shoveled into a fiery furnace 720,000 of his best pearls. Within three minutes they turned to flaky ashes (crystallized lime...
Foreign investors who have kept on hoping that Germany will repay at least her "private debts" ($1,000,000,000) in money of some sort, were rudely shaken when a blunt electioneering speech was barked by Chancellor Franz von Papen last week to plump, approving Westphalian industrialists at Paderborn...
...will be good getting down today. It will be good when the detraining mob in North Station starts singing "Dartmouth's in Town Again." It will be good to hear the long clamant wave of sound that will climax the kickoff and to hear the blunt barking roar that greets a touchdown. The crowd at a football game is always two teased Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer lions. It will be good for a man to feel himself part of all the color, of all the good nature, of all, the expectant enthusiasm. It will be excellent to watch The Dartmouth...
Pilot Hutchinson would have made a particularly wry face over the Evening Post's blunt comment, for in 1925 he narrowly missed being clapped in jail for embezzling $34,220 while employed as a bookkeeper in Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Trust Co. Obtaining a suspended sentence by agreeing to turn over 10% of his earnings to his bonding company, he was paroled for 25 years. He is now out of Pennsylvania by permission of the chief parole officer...
Under the decree which ousted Prussia's Adam & Eve, her Government is vested in a Federal Commissioner, blunt Dr. Franz Bracht. He took the line last week that he and all his ministers are not responsible to the Prussian Diet, but solely to President von Hindenburg. Therefore Dr. Bracht let Prussian Deputies elected by three-fifths of the German people rave, rant and grow purple in the face...