Word: batons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speed, with glaring headlights and armed guards on the footboards. The car stopped to avoid running over one of the police on point duty, and General Feng got out and ordered his bodyguard to kill the constable. Fortunately this order was not obeyed. He snatched the man's baton from him, and then resumed his breakneck career, his bodyguard hitting out at all other policemen they encountered en route...
...rehearsal (TIME, March 14, 1932). But Sir Thomas always affords sure entertainment. He strolled on stage as casually as if he were taking an everyday turn in the park. He bowed leisurely, shrewdly appraised his audience. Then with a bounce he was up on the stand, swinging his baton as if it were a cricket bat, crouching, dancing, shaking his fist, whipping along a performance which, from beginning to end, was extraordinarily vital...
Almost any name pulled out of a hat will have attached to it a man who can walk down at the head of a procession with a baton in his hand. So no particular and serious harm has been done in the past by the ridiculous procedure of Class Elections, where the electorate, though uniformly above the average in intelligence, finds itself completely ignorant and uninformed concerning the qualities for or against the candidates...
...stations", and now keeps in touch with far places by radio. When listening to King George's recent Jubilee Address, he was reminded of the occasion on which the present King's father, then the Prince of Wales, visited Harvard as an Oxford student. Rogers carried the baton to keep the 99 members of this class in order...
...thin, middle-aged woman stood in the darkened pit at the Chicago Opera House last week, waving a baton as if she believed it possessed some superhuman power. Her eyes blazed. She tossed her bushy head this way & that, pointed vigorous commands to the singers on the stage. Ethel Leginska had good reason to make much of the music, because she had written it. Hers was the distinction of being the world's first woman to conduct her own opera in an important opera house...