Word: lawyerish
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...Lawyerish Sir John Simon perhaps cannot believe that anyone would tear up a deck of cards. His nature is to assume that the game must go on and, being a game, must go on according to the rules. To their Embassy in Berlin the imperturbable British sent instructions to ask the German Government whether Adolf Hitler's invitation to Sir John Simon still stood; whether, assuming that it stood, the German Government remained anxious to obtain by bargain what they had purported to seize; whether, in effect, the Nazis are mad dogs or gentlemanly players of a gentleman...
...record a scar-cheeked Wilhelmstrasse official scoffed that lawyerish word traps will never catch Adolf Hitler. Among close friends of the Realmleader he was said to be preparing "another surprise, another master stroke...
White Paper. Just now London is significantly close to Ottawa. English Conservatives see eye to eye with Conservative Canadian Premier Bennett, rich lawyer. Last week it was Premier Bennett who set a new Empire precedent by issuing a Canadian White Paper on the Irish Free State. Cautious, lawyerish, it suggested that Mr. de Valera might find, after abolishing the Oath to the King in Dublin, that by this act he had cut loose the Irish Free State from enjoying Empire privileges?including the preferential duties which States within the Empire grant to each other's goods. Can an Oath...
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