Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baldwin. CHARACTER: "Here is a plain, blunt, simple-hearted countryman. . . . For good or for evil, his personality entirely lacks the flick of a cocktail. He is genuine cider. The small pinched-up eyes, with their uplifted brows, have the shrewdness of the shepherd rather than the sharpness of the merchant; the deep, grave, kindly voice has no note of drawing-room or art coterie, but the tone of a slow, pondering, decisive country mind. He is a man of action, but his activity suggests the fields and not the city. He is quick with humour and not a sluggard...
Specifications. The architect's draft of this world's first educational skyscraper shows a great soaring edifice, Gothic in form but not in detail, rising tower above flanking tower, up and up along slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base. The base is to be 360 by 260 ft., with four main arches, each 39 ft. high, opening into the heart of the pile. Batteries of high-speed elevators will be installed to race aloft through the tower to class rooms, laboratories, shops, libraries distributed on the building...
This subtle attack was backed with blunt words. The Communist journal declared that the Labor Government "for the first time since taking office had been compelled to act as a Labor Government should," that "it had definitely responded to the Labor movement as a whole...
...Haven, Conn., October 16.--Charles Nash Blunt of Port Huron, Mich., a freshman at Yale, was severely injured last night when he fell four stories onto a concrete walk in front of Fayerweather Dormitory here last night. He was still on the danger list in a hospital today...
...Blunt was climbing along a narrow window ledge from one room to another when he lost his balance and fell. He hit on his side and sustained a broken elbow, a fractured leg, and serious internal injuries...