Word: gauntness
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...catch them napping, as Adolf Hitler caught and destroyed the German Marxist parties, Norway's Labor Leaders abruptly changed their program. No longer battling for "the Dictatorship of the Proletariat," their election speakers in recent weeks have posed as champions of "Norwegian democracy under the Crown" of tall, gaunt, King Haakon VII. Returns from the General Election showed that this shift paid. Labor, as the champion of Constitutional monarchy, won nearly 50% more seats, while all other major parties shrank. Though still without a clear majority, Labor will hold 69 seats in the new Storting of 150 when...
...tyro at financial surveys is Lord MacMillan. Son of a Presbyterian parson, now 60, bald, gaunt, spectacled, with a mouthful of false teeth, he rose to eminence by Scotch frugality and toil through his profession, the law. Famed for his brilliant, resourceful mind, his shrewd humor, he is today Chairman of the Court of the University of London, a Peer, a member of Britain's Privy Council (Supreme HUGH PATTISOX MACMILLAN He repulsed a monstrous suggestion. Court). Heading commissions has been his forte: the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder in 1924, the Home Office Committee on Street...
That night he was supported by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain who made a long speech to the House of Commons urging the Conference to go on & on. "Let us keep contact with all other countries pleaded gaunt, earnest Mr. Chamberlain. "Let us not despair, even now, of achieving results of solid, practical value from the Conference...
...next door to the residence of the Prime Minister in No. 10 Downing St., lives (so every upper class Englishman has been brought up to believe) the Chancellor of the Exchequer-but this rule has ceased to hold. Gaunt, dynamic Chancellor Neville Chamberlain has every right to live in No. 11 and is rated the real head of the ruling Conservative Party, but he joins in showing every deference to the party's titular Leader, beloved and bumbling Stanley Baldwin who (conscious of his shortcomings as a statesman) was always trying to resign during his two terms as Prime...
After contrasting such empire-builders as "Mister Harriman." "Mister Vanderbilt," J. P. Morgan. "Mister Mellon" and Bruce Barton with Trailblazer Meriwether Lewis, Poet MacLeish concludes: You have just beheld the Makers making America: They screwed her scrawny and gaunt with their seven-year panics: They bought her back on their mortgages old-whore-cheap: They fattened their bonds at her breasts till the thin blood ran from them: Men have forgotten how full and clear and deep The Yellowstone moved on the gravel and grass grew When the land lay waiting for her westward people...