Word: bluntness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Barrymore refuses to let all this give anybody the creeps. Seldom offstage, and extremely vocal, blunt and racy when on, she plays her role with a huge gusto and humor that never degenerate into caricature. The same cannot be said of Playwright Langley's handling of his plot...
...speech had the blunt, threatening, direct, totalitarian touch so typical of the masters of Berchtesgaden and Rome, whom the Foreign Minister has several times visited. He hailed the "new era" that Nazi Germany had brought to Eastern Europe. He gloated over the "collapse of an artificially created Czechoslovakia." He sneered at onetime President Eduard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia and resented what he called M. Benes' renewed "propaganda and activities." As for neighbors...
...bred scorn were the feverish efforts of other sleuths to solve the case by strong-arm methods. To ask that the President declare now whether he will or will not run again, said he, is as crude as the third degree; in fact, it is "no more than a blunt demand that Mr. Roosevelt give himself up and confess." Nor did Detective Lippmann have much esteem for the political sleuths who have followed President Roosevelt's actions, studied his speeches, questioned his associates, interviewed his followers, looked for clues at press conferences. "Mr. Roosevelt," he observed, "is too smart...
Twists. Like most wits, Kaufman cracks his jokes with a dead pan, goes through life with a mournful one. Rangy and restless, hard to know, harder to understand, always blunt, often brusque, occasionally brutal, he is completely free from affectations but bulging with quirks. He is frightened of growing old, or being considered rich, or losing his hair. He forms friendships slowly, feels he has few friends. He talks to himself, makes strange faces, nods his head -a woman who sat opposite his desk at the Times for a long time wondered why he was always graciously bowing...
LONDON--First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston Churchill tonight blasted talk of peace and mediation in the European war with a blunt announcement that the Allies will fight until "that cornered maniac," Adolf Hitler, and his Nazi regime are crushed and destroyed...