Word: unkindest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert P. Patterson dealt Nelson the unkindest cut. He said sweetly that he held Jeffers in "high esteem," deeply regretted if his "recent remarks should have been interpreted as reflecting" on Jeffers...
...statuesque torch singer. In time he acquires a semi-Fascist radio station, is surrounded by more & more sinister henchmen. It becomes Tyler's business to take the rap for Crawford before a Federal grand jury and to be publicly repudiated by the demagogue : "Ah, there was the unkindest cut of all, the stab in the back from a friend...
...Unkindest Cut. At the State Department last week Judge Hull reportedly gave Vichy's man a stern lecture, warned him that France must send no aid to Germany if she wants sympathy from the U.S. Specifically, Vichy was told not to let the Nazis move into Dakar. But if the U.S. decides it must take over Martinique, the French will be expected to surrender the island without resistance. (If they should resist, the U.S. will probably just ring the island with cruisers, wait for the French to surrender, without wasting either American or Vichyfrench lives in an attack...
...leftist case for aid to Britain" in the current Harvard Progressive. Somewhat less polite but equally positive, the student editors disagree with Mr. Hicks. "Disagree" is putting it mildly, for in fact they accuse him of a "lack of faith in democracy". Among us good leftists, this is the unkindest cut of all. It is an epithet which is arrived at in rather interesting fashion...
...figures on imports to the U. S. from the Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea (around the Cape of Good Hope) were posted once more: 10%. Nine days later the underwriters thought still less of Italy, reduced Red Sea rates to 7½ %. Last week they gave Mussolini the unkindest cut of all: they trimmed the Red Sea figure to 5%. In areas where Nazi submarines operate, rates remained...