Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe that this elevated brute... sitting on his rump on a cushion of embroidered velvet ... has seven kings of Europe, two republics, and a continent tributary to him when his whole naval force is not equal to two line-of-battle ships...
...elevated brute was the Dey of Algiers and the man who asked this stictly rhetorical quextion was William Eaton, first U.S. Consul to Tunis. Rarely in history has any man been so frustrated as that tempestuous, square-jawed young New Englander...
Social Notes: Bob Grinaker announces that his service of minding babies (four years old and up) on Saturday nights will perforce be terminated after next week. On good authority we have it that it's "Brute" Lifshutz down in Texas. The most worried man in the company is Buck Ayars who before the leave is seeking an answer to a weighty problem...
...organization must be based eventually upon law rather than upon brute force. The present plan includes an international court, but makes no mention whatever of what law the court is to make or enforce...
...deeply interested in people. His cables were filled with descriptions of the men he met-the soft-spoken Marine colonel known as "The Brute," the New Zealand major with a fresco of butterflies and birds tattooed on his chest, the scared troops aboard an assault ship with their faces smeared with green camouflage paint and softly singing as H-hour approached...