Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General resigned with his entire Cabinet and in a passion. A short time previously he had met with refusal-blunt refusal-when he had demanded the resignation of his own Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, the Rt. Hon. Walter B. Madeley. Blast Madeley's impertinence! If he wouldn't resign alone, General Hertzog knew well enough how to force the fellow out by bringing down his whole Cabinet. The crash was called, last week, and for a very good reason, a "nigger crisis...
Some salve to Dutch sensibilities has been the ownership of the Press and News. For the Press passed, in 1911, into the hands of able, blunt Judge Lynn John Arnold, who published it for the Clark family (Singer Sewing Machines) of Cooperstown. Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors. Many a cousin, many an inlaw, would write indignantly to Owner Stephen when the Press, and later the News, failed to be brown and trim...
...blunt, honest Dutchman was looked askance at, in Geneva last week, as the League Assembly continued in session (TIME, Sept...
...course hard-boiled men in barracks do rollick and bellow, especially at the Sovereign and the Empire they love. But Victoria, no Hard-Boiled Queen, missed the too-blunt point and was irrevocably insulted...
Last week "Blunt Beelaerts," as scurrilous U. S. correspondents term him, consented to receive the press, an infrequent condescension. Evidently his breakfast eggs, toast, cheese, preserves and cups of chocolate had been especially satisfying, for "Blunt Beelaerts" proceeded to open with a Dutch pleasantry...