Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name was first mentioned as Ambassador to the U. S. (TIME, May 4), reporters stirred a mild flurry by skimming through his magazine articles, picking out some of the pepperiest paragraphs on the subject of U. S. imperialism. Senor Madariaga's opinions of U. S. foreign policy are blunt and to the point, but on the other hand he is just as quick to criticize his own nation or any other...
...gnats (simnliidae) used to deposit their eggs in the shallow waters of the annual inundation. As the larvae hatched and took the air, clouds of gnats would spread over the surrounding countryside, feeding on its fauna. Only the female gnat bites, affecting the victim like the puncture of a blunt, hot awl, and leaves a dull agony in its train...
Other politicians in Washington had, as always, plenty of suggestions. Senate Leader Watson dusted off the old Equalization Fee, famed export scheme of the 1928 campaign. The blunt proposal of Pennsylvania's Senator Reed, expressing the conviction of conservative eastern Republicans that the Board's price-fixing has been a futile costly mistake, was to abolish the Board at once and liquidate its holdings. Said he: "The Government can't artificially manufacture Prosperity for agriculture or any other industry...
...utilitarian thing painted red and grey (for visibility against ice), 175 ft. long. Arched across its deck from stern to bow are two braced beams. They resemble sled runners. They really are runners, to enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed air and so absorb...
...Claire and Frederic March. Miss Claire, presented with the no small problem of portraying Ethel Barrymore, reached the heights of artistry in her mimicry. All of the peculiar gestures, intonations, and hand claspings of the original were so thoroughly mastered by her that what might have been blunt burlesque became highly subtle comedy. As for Frederic March, he gave a caricature of John Barrymore that was so high-spirited and frankly satirical that he practically swept the play off its feet every time he made his appearance; all of which was a considerable help to a limping plot. The hero...