Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations is being secretly used for the interests of Imperialism," cried Mr. Morrison at Hackney, "then our Party must be free to make a new declaration superseding that of the Trades Union Congress. Labor can give no blank check of approval to this Government. We are not interested in the struggles of rival imperialisms [British & Italian], and we are not going to be drawn into them...
...upon himself to appraise the effects of a Harvard education. The standard he set can scarcely be considered too high, even by one who has descended upon Cambridge for purposes of enjoyment. "Four years of Harvard College, if successful," he would have us believe, "resulted in an autobiographical blank...
...with boughs of trees, some of the troops advanced to battle. On Hill 300 a regular sergeant from the First Division captured a major and four lieutenants quietly studying maps. Most serious fighting took place when a company of Vermont boys ambushed a company of regulars and fired point blank into them. A valiant Vermonter went to port arms and demanded, according to the rules of sham battle, that a regular in an exposed position surrender. The regular made a pass with his bayonet and several rude remarks. The Vermonter got a nasty gash under the eye. Thereupon the Vermonters...
...best of maneuvers is only a pale shadow of war and the lack of parallelism was abundantly apparent last week. Most important order issued was that none of the troops was to bring any real ammunition to the games lest somebody be shot. Each day special blank cartridges were issued: ten rounds per rifle, 100 rounds per machine gun, four rounds per field piece. Even for that modest schedule half a million rounds of ammunition were required...
Last of the great pre-Repeal gangsters left alive or at liberty is blank-faced, chicken-hearted Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy-game racket. "The cooler ain't never so cold as the morgue," quavered this pulpy nervous underworking last winter on giving himself up on a Federal charge of evading $92,103.34 in taxes on a 1929-31 income of $481,637.35. At his trial in Syracuse, N. Y. last spring he got a hung jury. Last week in rural Malone...