Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What unexpected twists or diplomatic figure eights Sir Sam may impart to Empire foreign policy Whitehall preferred not to guess. At the India Office he was noted for bullheadedness, for closing his eyes to new facts once his decisions were made, and for slogging through. Last week Sir Sam slogged his India Bill helper, the slim, grey-mustached Marquess of Zetland, into the Secretaryship of State for India he himself had just vacated. Lord Zetland wears 1910 collars, teems with anecdotes commencing "Now when I was Governor of Bengal . . .", and has a mannerism which Englishmen describe as "perpetually washing...
...wants us to go fishing in Canada with him and that ought to be good fun, but we want to be around for the parties on Long Island. We'd like to take a trip out to the coast, sort of bumming along and taking our time. We guess what we'll probably do is go up to the Cape with the family, though. --Yale Daily News...
...profanity, his swaggering and sabre rattling, had been in poor health for years. He was a martyr to severe attacks of asthma ever since his exile in Siberia 48 years ago. Thus several days ago when a famed cancer specialist arrived from Vienna, few Poles were smart enough to guess the reason, and three weeks ago when Poland adopted a new Constitution putting in legal form the system under which the country has run for years, and giving Puppet President Ignatz Moscicki the powers of a real dictator (TIME, May 6), all the world accepted the official explanation: Marshal Pilsudski...
...When I landed I didn't dare to get up because I've heard about people breaking their legs when they jumped. Finally a big policeman came along and said. 'Are you hurt bad, son?' and I said, 'I guess...
...fell through the ice, twisted his knee. Starving, he killed a dog, ate it. became deathly sick. Two days later he reeled into an Eskimo village where trappers from Baker Lake found him. First thing Adventurer Irwin wanted last week was a telegraph blank. Said he: "I guess Mother is worried about me. Mail has been a bit uncertain...