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...British journalists, uneasy at hearing German in a London press conference. As the speaker continued, there was more than his language to make his listeners uneasy. He was veteran Socialist Dr. Kurt Schumacher, who raised his voice on what was technically still enemy soil, and he had some blunt and bitter truths for the victors...
Rough, religious Americans of the 17th Century had a handful of homemade rules of etiquette that were ambitious ("Cloath your selves with the Silk of Piety, the Satin of Sanctity, the Purple of Modesty . . .") and sometimes blunt ("Fish and visitors stink in three days"). By the 18th Century, they had learned to plagiarize the French and English rule-books, after carefully tossing out all that smacked of aristocratic cynicism...
...General Rondon, now 82 and in Rio, the leader of the mission had wired: "I take great satisfaction in communicating to you news of the first amicable meeting with the Chavante Indians. . . ." Toasts had been drunk and some 400 Indians had offered presents in return -great spears with blunt tips. Said the General: "This is the victory of patience suffering and love...
...blunt report in the novel-form of Mary Jane Ward's The Snake Pit (TIME, May 6), Asylum Piece is a highly sensitive, subtle attempt to see the world through the eyes of a score of demented people, true not to life but to the living death of insanity...
...dentist strapped Sidney Joseph Perelman into the chair with six towels and forced his jaws apart with a blunt instrument. "Now then, where are his X rays?" he asked the nurse. "We haven't any," she said. "This is the first time he's been here." "Well, bring me any X rays," barked the dentist; "when you've seen one tooth you've seen them...