Word: bludgeon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beulah Louise Overell, now 19, acquitted of the bludgeon-&-blast death of her parents last October, was doing all right financially. The Overell estate, as valued in probate court...
Unfortunately, instead of letting the sharp-edged facts make his case for him, Kahn has chosen to try to bludgeon the iron-domed Thomas with the most blatant devices available. Consequently Kahn's introduction reads like the first chapter of a fair whodunit and his commentary on the testimony smacks of Norman Corwin at his over-dramatized worst...
...economic philisophy of the Grand Old Party makes it likely that whatever action is taken will consist of squashing labor's freedom of decision by Congressional fiat. The chance that such action will be blocked by Executive veto is lessened by President Truman's propensity for wielding a bludgeon in labor disputes. He and his advisers lack the time and tact to handle the labor question diplomatically and will be only too happy to be handed an even bigger club...
...with a special interest in the proceedings: big, heavy, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, in a grey business suit, and lean, bronzed Lieut. General Walter C. Short, also in grey. Their careers were al ready wrecked. Now other men would feel the stab of fact as well as the bludgeon of political innuendoes...
...Edison and onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. From the start of his three-year term in 1941, smart, mild-mannered Governor Edison defied Hague more openly than any other governor has dared to. He dented Hague's armor badly, using the old state constitution as his bludgeon. Edison stumped the state, denouncing the inefficient basic law. Before his term was up, he got the people to vote for the submission of a new constitution at the 1944 election...