Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black jacket, white tie and suede-topped buttoned shoes wagged his short forefinger at the President in high-laced shoes and conservative business suit, making hotly such points as that France will not stand for having another Moratorium thrust forward from the U. S. "suddenly and brutally."? Equally blunt was Mr. Hoover, according to some reports, in challenging the French thesis of "Security before Disarmament," insisting on "real disarmament" when the Disarmament Conference meets...
...late Nicholas Longworth and John Nance Garner was the fine limousine supplied to the Speaker of the House (TIME, Nov. 17, 1930). Last year's car was transferred to the Senate and the Treasury was prepared to buy a brand new one for Speaker Garner. Last week the blunt little Texan announced...
...present curbs on the sale of firearms to be extended to blackjacks, clubs and other blunt instruments...
...Davenport - Putnam ($3)- Many a rough, brutal life is epitaphed into marmoreal propriety; but this biography of hardboiled, cynical Boies Penrose fits its subject. From the typical disillusioned newspaperman's attitude, with no kinship to the polished Lytton Strachey school, Power and Glory sets forth briefly, competently, in blunt, sensational journalese, the true story of a bold...
When the pound sterling went off gold (TIME, Sept. 28), burly, beer-bibbing Viscount Rothermere had a GREAT IDEA. He started no insidious whispering campaign to shake world confidence in the U. S. dollar and force it off gold, for Viscount Rothermere is blatant, blunt. Mornings his GREAT IDEA was shrieked by his Daily Mail (circulation 1,872,418: world's largest). Evenings his Britainwide chain of provincial papers did not hint but yelled that the dollar is unsafe. In Rothermere papers the financial page, the featured news page and the editorial page all carried staccato attacks on the dollar...