Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Churchill. Following ex-Premier Herbert H. Asquith's blunt excoriation of the Anglo-Russian Treaty as "a crude experiment in nursery diplomacy," Winston Churchill, brilliant factotum to Governments, whose political credo now transcends mere party politics (he seceded from the Liberals and is denied membership with the Conservatives), presented a clear picture of the predominant issue of the generally envisaged general elections. Said he, speaking at Edinburgh...
...Ginn and Co.; Henry B. Thayer, president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Albert O. Brown of the Amoskeag Savings Bank; Prof. John K. Lord, former professor of Latin; Dr. John M. Gile, surgeon; Henry L. Moore, retired treasurer of the Minnesota Loan and Trust Company; Harry H. Blunt, treasurer of the Wonalancet Company; Clarence B. Little, president of the First National Bank of Bismark, N. D.; Fred II, Howland, president of the National Life Insurance Company; ex-Gov. Fred H. Brown and Charles G. Du Bois, president of the Western Electric Company. That such a board of trustee...
When Premier Herriot met the specially convened Senate and Chamber, he had a blunt message for them. The gist of his long speech was: "This is the best I can get for France. If you refuse it, then must we follow a policy of isolation, deserted even by Belgium...
...Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, executive head of the U. S. Navy, taking courage from the warm reception his blunt remarks in favor of aggressive warfare had received the week before, continued blunt. He charged England with instigating the 1920 Washington Conference on Limitation of Armaments in order that the U. S. Navy might be reduced and Britannia left free to rule the world's commerce. Sir James Arthur Salter, onetime Assistant Director of the Transportation Department at the British Admiralty, thereupon arose. Said he: "I assure you upon my honor. ... I have never in the most intimate private...
...shoot any one at all and took the wife back to their little paradise-on-the-installment-plan, because he could not order ice and milk. She was a good woman. And had she been as sensible as she was good she would have fanned him with a short, blunt instrument and gone off to live with the other...