Word: gentlest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edmondo Rossoni, Minister of Agriculture, gentlest Cabinet Minister, who used to see everybody, promise everything, do nothing. Stanch friend to Soviet Ambassador Boris Stein, he had hoped that the Moscow-Berlin and Rome-Berlin Axes might mesh...
...picked up the designation Strong Man. Although it fits him as ill as the style Athlete would fit Adolf Hitler, it stuck. Perhaps his profile (with an army hat on, for he has little forehead and no hair) accounts for it, perhaps pressagentry. Whatever the reason, he is the gentlest Strong Man ever to make thrones totter. An orphan at nine, he grew up to love painting, history, philosophy, went to Cracow to study them. On the side he acted beautifully in amateur theatricals. He distinguished himself as an athlete, but was no bonecrusher; fenced gracefully, played keen tennis, rode...
Most other big Nazis rant offensively, but not tiny, obese Economics Minister Dr. Walther Funk, whom Germans call the "gentlest of all the Nazis." He returned quietly to Berlin last week from a tour of the Balkans on which he notably overbid the British and French in extending credits-i.e., economic bribes for political favors. And the day after he got back, Poland thankfully accepted a German credit of 60,000,000 marks and, according to reports, Greece was put down by the German Economics Ministry for a credit of 100,000,000 marks...
Strictest judge of her own worth, gentlest of man's mind...
Johnny Roosevelt is the gayest, vaguest, gentlest, most winning of the Presidential sons. Anne is no great beauty but full of spirit, a good sailor, swimmer and dancer. When Johnny first presented her to his father, he said: "This is Miss Schmaltz." "Oh!" exclaimed the President, "I thought it was Zilch." The late F. Haven Clark, Anne's father, was a Boston banker. He had a place on Campobello Island, N. B. straight across the road from the Roosevelts'. But Anne became engaged to another boy, John interested in another girl. Not till last year did they take...