Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aimed at U. S. motorists (who last year bagged a record 39,500 motorists and pedestrians on U. S. highways) was this crack made last week by Ford Motor Co.'s grey, blunt William J. Cameron...
...BLUNT INSTRUMENT - Georgette Heyer - Crime Club ($2). A blunt instrument finishes the philandering of a well-to-do English gentleman. Notable for amusing, effortless dialogue, engaging characters...
...anything he has written. In comparison with such brief and finished works which combine psychological subtlety with adventure, The Fifth Column seems ragged and confused. This Hemingway explains by saying that "in going where you have to go ... and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with." He adds that it can be sharpened again, and after it is sharpened he knows he will have something to write about-he wants to live long enough to write three more novels and 25 more stories. Readers of his new book are likely to hope...
...cracked, calmly announced the Anglo-French demands were "receiving consideration." Prague papers were encouraged to print them in full, placed under rigid censorship as to editorial comment. As the Czechoslovak cabinet sat hour after hour indecisively pondering its answer to the Anglo-French proposals, the Government sent a blunt question to Paris: What would France do about its pact with Czechoslavakia if Prague's answer was no? The question was born of desperation. Under the treaty setups, Czechoslovakia can call on France for aid only if she is the victim of "unprovoked aggression," can call upon Russia only after...
...Buckminster Fuller as an architect it has been said that he proceeds incoherently to logical conclusions. As a writer he follows the same procedure, leaping from-subject to subject faster than the eye can follow, but usually reaching conclusions notable for their mixture of blunt common sense and intuitive romanticism...