Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help make it "all over," President Roosevelt for the first time since taking office came out with a public announcement of his position on Repeal. To avoid stirring up unnecessary dissensions within his own party, he had refrained from blunt utterances on the matter while Congress was in session, contented himself with broad hints that if the 18th Amendment were revoked by Jan. 1, he would drop special emergency taxes on gasoline, dividends, corporate profits to finance the Federal building program (TIME. May 29). Last week he took occasion to telegraph National Committeeman Leon McCord of Alabama...
They made him stay and listen to their views on the President's blunt refusal to stabilize the dollar in terms of gold...
...bold blunt aims of Benito Mussolini's "Four-Power Pact" as originally announced (TIME, April 10) were partial revision of the post-War treaties and gradual granting of arms equality to the defeated nations. Last week, emasculated beyond recognition. Il Patto a Quattro was ready to receive the squiggled initials (not signatures) of Il Duce and the ambassadors in Rome of Britain, France, Germany. Because Il Patto is the first treaty of world importance hatched by Benito Mussolini since he made Italy his nest, he turned the initialing into a Roman holiday, had loudspeakers stuck up beside the splashing...
...taught Donald to bite walls and people, and to peek under doors. Gua's many teeth were blunt and so hurt less than Donald's few. Gua hated perfume and asafetida; Donald liked perfume. Both reacted similarly to sweet, salty and bitter substances. Gua, however, liked sour things. Gua was more ticklish than Donald, frequently tickled herself for pleasure. Gua was first to recognize herself in a mirror, first to show interest in the pictures in a book...
...portraying the asinine and brutal vulgarity of the modern young bloods and contrasting it with the traditional wisdom and courtesy of the old generation, Author Macdonell's good nature breaks down into invective or falters into sentimentality. But most of the time he is content to point a blunt and sudden finger, raise a hearty laugh...