Word: bluntspoken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward Joseph Flanagan, 61, bluntspoken, kindly director of Boys Town, Neb.; in Berlin, Germany, where he had gone to advise the U.S. Army on youth problems. Irish-born Father Flanagan founded Boys Town in 1921 as a nonsectarian home for delinquents and orphans (his creed: "There is no such thing...
...When bluntspoken, disheveled Carioca* Villa-Lobos went to Paris in 1923, he did not go to get polished. "I didn't come here to study," blurted he. "I came to show you what I have done." When he had finished showing them his blunt, smoldering music (much of it written for Brazilian tom-toms and gourd rattles), the Parisians decided he was a sort of musical William Saroyan. His Paris apartment became a rendezvous for admiring Left-Bankers. Villa-Lobos, who couldn't afford to keep open house, threw them out, told them not to come back unless...