Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton's freshmen two days before, President Dodds took the occasion to declare: "The people love liberty . . . but they put ham and cabbage first, If they can't get them under democracy, they will trans fer their affections and their spiritual val ues to other systems. The blunt fact is that our democracy must cleanse itself . . . if it is to fit itself to be an efficient instrument of social control." That, as it turned out, was just what practical President Eddy proposed...
...live to be 100 I'll never hear sweeter music than the chuckle of the sea past the Girl Pat's bows, the soft whistle of the wind in her rigging, and the slap-slap of the waves against her creaking timbers as she dug her blunt nose into deep water. ... At Tenerite ... an elderly native came sidling up to me. ... He started to praise his daughter and-well, although to me she was only some sort of a dark-skinned female out of Africa, my gorge rose and I socked him one and left him something...
...rebuilt corpse was subsequently identified as Lillian White, an inmate of Letchworth. The identification was upheld by Justice Arthur S. Tompkins of the New York Supreme Court; and her murderer, Joseph Blunt, was subsequently caught in Maine...
...North the local regime in Hopei and Chahar Provinces established by Chinese under Japanese auspices last week took for itself the kind of autonomy which in China matters most, autonomy in collecting and keeping in its treasury the customs revenues which would otherwise be sent to Nanking. In a blunt manifesto Hopei-Chahar assumed this prerogative amid local cheers, for the new Hopei-Chahar duties are only one-eighth the Nanking duties...
Last year, with Africa Dances, Geoffrey Gorer wrote an unusual travel book based on a trip he had taken through West Africa with an educated Parisian Negro who was doing research on the dances of blackamoor tribes. The book was notable for its blunt and sometimes angry descriptions of the consequences of bad administration on the natives, as well as for its account of some of the extraordinary ritual dances that Gorer witnessed. It contained a few passages on native magic that suggested the author possessed a streak of mysticism that he had difficulty in communicating...