Word: compacter
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...then there is Frank Richardson Kent, perhaps the sharpest of them all. Small, compact, quick, incurably enthusiastic and good-humored, he knows the politicians as few of them know themselves. Exposing their humbuggery, dishonesty, pomposity, spells FUN to him. He probably got his taste for political writing from his uncle, Frank A. Richardson, who from the Civil War until 1910 was Washington correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, in which Pundit Kent's "Great Game of Politics" (column) appears daily and of which he is vice president. He delineates the technology of politics. He has done a history...
...William Joynson-Hicks, British Home Secretary: "Unless the nations of the world follow the example of Great Britain and show a real desire to curtail their armaments, the compact will be nothing but a hollow sham...
...signing this compact at your request, a compact to end war, and yet we understand that you are increasing your navy...
...name across their pages. In 1925 the Cardinals were doing badly; early in June Manager "Sunday School" Branch Rickey was ousted, Hornsby was made manager. Except that his face and hands were cleaner, he still looked much the same as he did when he played in Hugo-wiry and compact, jutting jaw, small eyes, his upper lip too short to cover his strong, uneven front teeth. The New York Giants bid a quarter of a million for him. They were told curtly: "Hornsby is not for sale." In his first full year as manager (1926), he brought the Cardinals their...
...Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan (TIME, April 30). Sir Austen said that the Dominions must be consulted before His Majesty's Government can formulate a reply, but that "it will be to the effect of our desire to cooperate in the conclusion of such a compact...