Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Favor." Evident to all was the fact that Mr. Young, purposely or not, had precisely obeyed Rule No. 4 in the realistic lexicon of How to Become President : Identify yourself early and firmly with a national issue (TIME, Nov. 24). To newshawks who pestered him with blunt questions on the subject of presidential politics, he gave this adroit statement...
After graduation Son Cecil worked in his father's office for three months, left with a promise that he would always make more with his pen and camera than he could at an office desk. To blunt questions as to what his father's name is, what he does in The City, Photographer Beaton blushed, "My father is Scotch," said he. "His business is wholesale-something to do with coal and lumber. Oh dear, this is frightfully embarrassing." When Cecil Beaton was ten, the Scotch-wholesaler father presented him with a 3A folding Kodak. Cecil has used...
...last of the Hohenzollerns is not the blunt uncultured Prussian delineated by caricaturists. The more attractive side of the former emperor, his genial nature and intellectual propensities, have rarely been recognized in this country...
...appointment of a Governor General for one of the Dominions had always been announced by His Majesty's Government in Great Britain, had always contained the hallowed words: "His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve. . . ." Like a blunderbuss fired from Australia House came last week this blunt phrase: "The King, on the recommendation of Scullin, has appointed. . . ." Sir Isaac Isaacs. Even before Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of Australia set out for London to attend the Imperial Conference (TiME, Oct. 13, et seq.), he promised Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, that the King-Emperor would appoint him Governor General...
...Club Cook Book scorns frippery and froufrou, sets forth many a plain but seasonable and spicy appetizer, many a hearty pièce de résistance. Like its author's conversation these recipes are blunt but pointed, dipped in the salty wit of good sense. Unusual among politicians. Dr. Browne says what he thinks; unique among cookbook authors, he gives many a flat decision on moot questions of food & drink. "Beaten biscuits are biscuits horribly beaten before they are cooked and may be used as golf-balls afterward.'' Of a Clover Club cocktail he says, "It's an awful mixture...