Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Gallery last week found themselves on a rubberneck tour of 18th-Century London. They peered into brawling alleys and elegant, candlelit drawing rooms; into prisons where the whipping posts were "the reward of idleness" and cockpits where the gamblers seemed more ferocious than the cocks. The tour conductors: blunt, biting William Hogarth, ribald Thomas Rowlandson...
...years ago who drawled, "Sor-ry, but y'can't have the telegram 'thout signin'...comp'ny reg'lations y'know." He nasalizes similar lines as the psychopathic villain in the slight chiller now filling the Copley Theatre. The down-easter with the Maine twang is, in blunt fact, "Little Brown Jug's" sole claim to a dubious fame...
...week, UNO was already a town meeting of the world. This was largely due to U.S. insistence at San Francisco that the Big Power veto could not shut off discussion. UNO was already the focal point for issues that disturbed the world's peace-despite Russia's blunt insistence fortnight ago that nothing except the Big Three really mattered. Hope rose last week in London that it might grow from a forum to a town meeting in the effective New England sense...
...Summons. On the stroke of 6 o'clock, the President acted. After talking briefly to all five men, he summoned Ben Fairless to his office alone and told him, in the blunt terms of a schoolmaster settling a schoolyard fight, that he wanted the strike stopped...
After mulling over the speech, thoughtful Columnist Walter Lippmann wrote: "The blunt truth is that the men nearest [the President] do not have enough brains, and have practically none of the wisdom which comes from experience and education, to help him to be the President of the United States. . . . There is an American myth and legend . . . that the 'plain people' like mediocre men in their government. . . . This is a politicians' fable. . . . The cult of mediocrity, which is a form of inverted snobbery, is not democracy. It is one of the diseases of democracy...