Word: trenchant
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...were the patriotic editors of Canton who were still shrieking for war against Japan. Censors carefully rejected everything which might possibly offend Japan, but did permit the Canton editors to issue their papers with reams and reams of blank columns. These sufficiently suggested to alert Chinese readers the scorching, trenchant and clarion calls to 450,000,000 Chinese to rise against 97,000,000 Japanese which would have appeared if only they had not been left...
...official Sanctions ending date. Not the End. As the delegates hastily left Geneva for their home capitals, most privately agreed that by far the best speech of the week had been made by the Irish Free State's Eamon de Valera and that these were his most trenchant words: "If the great powers of Europe would only meet now in that peace conference which will have to be held after Europe has once again been drenched in blood; if they would be prepared to make now, in advance, only a tithe of the sacrifice each of them would have...
...King-the last yet to appear), but the second in his time scheme, Education Before Verdun seeks to repeat Sergeant Grischa's case in terms of the Western Front. Perhaps because its inhumanly terrible story is not so concentrated, the sympathy it arouses is more diffused, less trenchant. Perhaps any plot based on human relationships loses much of its poignancy when staged before the plotless chaos of Verdun; the scenes readers will find most memorable are the ones in which that impersonally erupting background is most to the fore...
Jonathan Swift would blink in wonder to see what the Russians have done to Dr. Gulliver. They have taken all the trenchant satire of that colossus among midgets, and they have revamped it to demonstrate that the organized crime called capitalism is the meanest, most contemptible, most ridiculous abuse known...
Died. Frank Herbert Simonds, 57, newspaper correspondent, editor, author, able U. S. interpreter of European affairs since 1914; of pneumonia; in Washington, D. C. A pessimistic and trenchant writer, he was convinced that the Treaty of Versailles did not end the War, accurately predicted Germany's attempt at anschluss with Austria, the Italo-Ethiopian...