Word: gauntness
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Peace. Strong on defense, Britain and France seemed weak on surprise. Neither gaunt Mr. Neville Chamberlain, taking his after-breakfast stroll as usual, nor serious M. Daladier, had the talent, training, or freakish love of shock to plan a move of the sort that Hitler had made. As profound gloom settled over the capitals of Europe-in Moscow, belatedly, as well as in Berlin-some great stroke of unprecedented originality, some inspired action unlike any that diplomatic history had known, seemed called for to answer Hitler's. But the imaginations of peace were not productive. Memories of Munich, when...
...been assistant district attorney of New York County. As a writer, he has authored 40 books from love stories (The Needle's Eye) to firsthand reporting of his police and court experiences (Courts, Criminals and the Camorra). But most people know Arthur Train as the creator of tall, gaunt, kindly, shrewd, humorous, cigar-smoking Lawyer Ephraim Tutt, who by using the tricks of the law to outsmart the tricks of the law, manages to evoke a brand of justice that, if not strictly according to Blackstone, is humane and just...
...Gaunt-faced, peppery Clarence Budington Kelland is a leading professional in the slick-paper magazine school of fiction. Twice as ingenious as most of his rivals, he has two standard plots: 1) streamlined, wisecracking romances, in which a duffer outwises the wise guys, 2) yarns-mostly historical-in which all stops are pulled out to paean the American Way. Arizona, a Civil War yarn published last week, uses Plot...
...Tuesday the first head had fallen, that of the gaunt Great White Rabbit of 1939, Franklin Roosevelt's Spend-Lend Bill that was proposed at $3,860,000,000 but had been slashed to $1,615,000,000 in the Senate (TIME, July 24, et seq.). In Franklin Roosevelt's biggest legislative defeat yet, the House refused (193-167) even to consider the bill. This was the first time a Roosevelt Congress had turned down pap and pork...
Died. Charles Clark Bradley, 60, gaunt-eyed Iowa judge; in Le Mars, Iowa. In 1933 a mob of farmers on whose homes he had refused to waive foreclosure proceedings dragged Judge Bradley from his courtroom, threatened to lynch him, poured axle grease on his face. Said he later: "They're still good people. They have been badly led, and their misfortunes are heavy upon them...