Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"There are times when it is necessary to speak clearly. Messieurs, the whole fate of French finances rests on your decision." Such was the climax of a great speech in the Chamber of Deputies last week-a speech that came in compact, persuasive phrases from Premier Raymond Poincaré. At...
The Scouts, who are often pointed to as a potent reserve behind the national arms for peace or war, administered the Scout oath to their visitors. They presented twelve of the notables with belts, though General Bullard was the only dignitary slim-waisted enough to wear his gift. Governor Smith...
Brakes set with a long screech. Three men pointed black steel muzzles from their car at the lone pedestrian. Four bullets passed through Mr. O'Higgins' neck, one lodged in his chest, a sixth entered one ear and penetrated to the base of his brain. The motor car lurched, raced...
. . . Particularly do I wish to voice my admiration of the editors who handle your FOREIGN NEWS. The pointed, condensed methods used are excellent. Your weekly words about the China situation are splendid. Congratulations to your China Editor, whom I would really like to know some day, for his subject happens...
But that Colonel Lindbergh, the naïve, the non-commercial - the Lindbergh who carried a passport and letters of introduction with him on his flight-should have given his name to the ancient journalistic hoax came rather as a shock. Readers shook heads, shrugged shoulders, mumured: "Say, it isn...