Word: compacter
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...correspondents but ready with a queer, cackling laugh for his colleagues; 2) Monsieur Aristide Briand (France), tousled and heavy eyed as a tomcat at dawn; 3) Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany), plump, bald, rubicund, and yet with a trig, indefinable air of smartness; 4)Signor Vittorio Scialoja (Italy), representing with compact, bustling decisiveness the great Duce; 5) Baron Adachi (Japan), frail, insignificant in stature, piping voiced, yet with a winning and decisive mien...
...compact and mutually loyal little body is the Headmasters' Association of the United States. It meets every winter, often at some college. Last week it forgathered with President John Grier Hibben of Princeton...
...blue uniform, twinkling with medals, cased the little, compact royal body. The oval, shapely head bore proudly a black shako topped with aigrette plumes. The left hand rested, militantly graceful, on the jeweled hilt of a sword. The right arm snapped to a correct salute as Amir Amanullah beheld upon the platform small, slim King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, and burly but suave Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland is devoted to States Rights. But last week, at a convention of Maryland farmers, he proposed something Federal in scope-a compact national organization of farmers, comparable to the American Federation of Labor, and for it Government aid comparable to Industry's tariff. Labor's immigration law, Banking's Federal Reserve...
Second Stroke. Secretary Kellogg replied by despatching to Paris an alternative plan: 1) The treaty should not "outlaw war," but "renounce war as an instrument of national policy;"* and 2) The treaty should not be a two-power affair but a "multilateral compact" signed with the U.S. and France by all the Great Powers...