Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even to Russians the swarthy Kremlin Dictator does not convey his views or orders in a monolog. Like Mussolini, Stalin has the habit, nerve-racking to his henchmen, of asking them first what they think. They may try to guess what he wants them to think, but inevitably Stalin succeeds in digging out much mental meat. He then sums up, gives his decision, and with sighs of relief the henchmen agree. This method, adopted by Mussolini from Machiavelli's II Principe, Stalin evolved from his innate Oriental flair for despotism. Charming when he chooses, Joseph Stalin, big-boned...
...well as he could M. Verviers answered, his shrewd guess being that the belga would be taken off gold and devalued 25%. Few hours later police rushed in and arrested M. Verviers. "You are charged with endangering the national credit," he was told. "Witnesses are ready to testify that you said, 'The Government has devalued the belga 25%.' For such a malicious falsehood you can be punished with three months in jail...
...last ten years I guess I have sat for a dozen or more artists, to have a painting done of me-all but one of these by request of the artists themselves. If I were able to line up all of these paintings side by side, you would find that each one of them had a different expression. . . . That is the reason that a connoisseur of art can immediately say what great artist did such and such a painting, because he sees the artist's earmarks on the canvas. ... I want you to do something practical...
...effort to make Man do right, finally substituting Mercy for Might when He suffers with his Son on Calvary. Prior to one of his unsuccessful visits to Earth, "de Lawd" confides to Gabriel, his Pullman porter-like secretary: "De whole thing rests on my shoulders. I declare, I guess dat's why I feel so solemn and serious. . . . You know dis thing's turned into quite a proposition...
...Omaha, George H. Cobb Jr., 26, identified himself as a one-armed paperhanger. Said he: "I guess I just got a natural talent...