Word: applecart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schacht, having upset the applecart, set about picking up the apples. Within 24 hours he announced that he (i.e., the Reichsbank) would supply the needed cash. The political neck of Optimist Hilferding seemed saved and the whole affair might have passed off as a teapot-tempest, except for the famed Berliner Tageblatt whose editor announced that he possessed the inside story, upset the apples again...
Molinet of Cornell steered his big, red and rejuvenated applecart against a Penn team which wavered in the first half, and came out with locker-room courage after the intermission to tie the score with a field goal and a touchdown...
...Coloombia! Coloombia!" The cry, springing from a myriad throats, made Cornell rooters recoil. Not since 1905 has that cry drowned the klaxons of Cornell's red applecart, but last Saturday, with Rieger's 70-yard trip to glory, and the good right toe of Captain Madden, Columbia came from behind a 9-0 lead...
...backs in the East, made Pennsylanvia's fifth touchdown in the last period against Johns Hopkins, which scored only once. Georgetown, outplayed, held Pittsburgh to a 6-6 tie. Cornell found in Niagara a well-drilled team too light to score and lucky enough to hold the Ithacan applecart to 28 points...
With the national applecart thus upset, each of Poland's three political tycoons (Dmowski, Right; Witos, Center; Pilsudski, Left) encouraged his followers to set him up as dictator. Correspondents cabled that "anything might happen." Interest centred in fire-eating, swashbuckling Josef Pilsudski, a former (the second) President of the Rzeczpospolita Palska. He was exiled to Siberia (1887-1892) for plotting to assassinate the Tsar; and during the World War the Germans succeeded in catching and imprisoning him. When at liberty, he delights to organize bands of "patriots," train them in gymnastic sokols (clubs) and lead them on ill-considered expeditions...