Word: ironhandedness
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Until the present British Labor Government came in, the High Commissioner of His Majesty George V in Cairo was literally the Mussolini of Egypt, ruthless, ironhanded Baron George Ambrose Lloyd of Dolobran. Mr. MacDonald accepted and probably forced the resignation of Lord Lloyd. It was hoped that the Prime Minister...
Physical fitness was the insistent credo of great-bodied, florid, sandy-haired Mr. 0. He governed his charges like an ironhanded country squire, his severity being tempered on occasion by notable Mrs. O, herself the mother of two Pomfret boys. William and Frederick. When a boy slouched round-shouldered out...
Complained Harry G. Clark, a district superintendent: "We were told that if we did not reach perfection in these tests instituted by Mr. McAndrew some one else would be found to take our places. . . . The result of Mr. Andrew's ironhanded methods were found in cheating and dishonesty in...
Just what the Herr President did or said appeared none too clear. Pressmen, who profess to see "an ironhanded statesman" in the aged Feldmarschall, reported that he summoned the leaders of the Centre parties to him and "commanded" them to settle their internal differences "within four hours" and forthwith to...
But this was not all. Raditch's party (Croatian Peasant's Party), which formed the mainstay of the Opposition with 70 seats in the Skupshtina (National Assembly), was disbanded by order of white-whiskered Nikolai Pashitch, ironhanded Premier of Yugo-Slavia. All leaders and some 600 supporters were...