Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blessed by the Pope, bidden adieu by Premier Mussolini as she sailed majestically forth on her polar flight, with one (or more) strokes of his pen, your Editor converts her [the Norge] from a "good airship" into a "BLUNT SILVERY CIGAR." [TIME, Apr. 19, SCIENCE...
Amundsen. The Pope blessed them and so did the elements. Premier Mussolini bade them adieu. They stood in their linen overalls at the cabin windows and their chief ordered that the nose ropes be cast off. The blunt silvery cigar tilted heavenward to an angle of 45 degrees. Then propellers roared, stern ropes were flung off, every one waved and up they shot toward Italy's bright blue sky ? Colonel Umberto Nobile, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel...
...incisions. A thin-lined six-inch triangle showed faintly. This the surgeon peeled back and let the flap lie out of the way. Then into the skull bone with the saw. Slow, careful rasping. A six-inch triangle lay loose, like a piece of cracker on gelatin. With a blunt instrument Dr. Dandy separated this piece of bone from the underlying, attached dura mater. Into that tough membrane, into the arachnoid tissue, into the pia mater-carefully, very carefully. Some blood. The mass came loose like a slab of stale custard...
...Blunt, two-fisted Samuel Matthews Vauclain has been President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, with plants at Philadelphia and Eddystone, Pa., since 1919. During the early post-War years his company continued supplying U. S. and foreign railroads at large production and large profit. In 1923 its profits reached the tidy sum of $11,931,521. But in the next year the railroad equipment market throughout the world was beginning to show demoralization. Baldwin's profits for 1924 were only $1,920,026. But stored surplus was $18,367,268. The profit showing was not seriously groaned...
Unfortunately for some people he writes his own plays, and aims them straight at the blunt heads of the middle-class. His purpose is to make people happy, and in the cheapness of his conception he can see only such trite comedy props as boot-leg whiskey, puppy-love, and husband vs. wife warfare in three rounds. As a playwright he has never tired of such obvious tricks of the trade as Owen Davis uses in many of his off moments. Still as a star he remains wholly sincere and genuine. It is fortunate for his plays that he usually...