Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the German Foreign Office loudly announced at Berlin that their London Embassy was making "the sharpest protest," Mr. Churchill was on the electioneering stump having another fling at Adolf Hitler. Soon in British Government circles the word passed that if the Realmleader was really aroused it would be impossible, all because of a potboiler, to give Mr. Churchill the Cabinet plum he has been promised...
Monet had but two interests, painting and gardening. Paris appalled him. He is never known to have made a quotable remark. Manet and his friends Degas and Clemenceau could and did trade epigrams with the sharpest tongues of the Second Empire. He was Parisian to the core, a dandy in his dress...
...President met his sharpest critics with his best illustrative technique. "The job of creating a program for the nation's welfare is, in some respects, like the building of a ship. At different points on the coast where I often visit they build great seagoing ships. When one of these ships is under construction and the steel frames have been set in the keel, it is difficult for a person who does not know ships to tell how it will finally look...
...There sat this always solitary man-he and I, of course, in the room alone, each, I am sure, giving the other his full confidence.'' Says Millis: "It was a dangerous illusion for a diplomatist at a moment like that one." Page soft-pedalled Wilson's sharpest notes to the British Government, drew frequent Wilsonian rebukes: "Beg that you will not regard the position of this Government as merely academic. Contact with opinion on this side the water would materially alter your view. . . ." But long before the U. S. joined the Allies, Page had become, in Wilson...
Said Dun & Bradstreet: "During the week there was a complete transformation of sentiment as the hopes for a rather far-removed improvement were replaced by a realization that the immediate future is to bring the sharpest rise that has been witnessed in business in the past quarter of a century...