Word: bludgeons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeeded in defeating Mr. Lehman at Albany and then encumbered the party ticket with Walker's renomination in New York City. Governor Roosevelt's chances of carrying New York State would become slim indeed. But the Democratic presidential nominee still had one mighty weapon with which to bludgeon Tammany into line? prospective Federal patronage. Boss Curry knew only too well that as far as Federal jobs were concerned Governor Roosevelt could, if elected, put Tammany on starvation rations for four years...
...This bludgeon-blow so distressed well-meaning Stanley Baldwin that he went to the expense of having editorials in British papers which remained favorable to him self cabled to Ottawa and there released by his delegation's press contact man, Malcolm MacDonald, toothbrush-mustached son of Prime Minister MacDonald...
...Club or at Delmonico's, kept an expensive house on Riverside Drive and a summer home at Lake George, strutted about at opera and horse show, a conspicuous figure with his whiskers, flaming red tie, frock coat, plug hat, and heavy walking stick which could make a highly effective bludgeon...
...German week passes without blood-spilling between Adolf Hitler's bludgeon-swinging Fascists and their brick-throwing enemies, the German Communists. To cheer the Fatherland's Red battlers last week came a message from TROTSKY, a clarion call to more and better brick-throwing from Russia's great exile, banished by STALIN to Turkey (TIME, March...
Having demolished, brick by brick, the architectural monstrosities of Yale and fashioned, with some degree of acumen, a literary bludgeon against the social customs of that University, William Harlan Hale, co-editor of The Harkness Hoot has gone farther afield. He has taken Harvard and Princeton, along with Yale, to be his province, and widened his vehicle by means of the columns of the New Republic...