Word: bludgeons
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...York Sun Columnist George E. Sokolsky cited bludgeon-wielding Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler as "one Of the most competent reporters in American journalism." Hearst's New York Journal-American ran a half-page promotion ad to be sure that no reader missed the compliment...
...central theme in much of Huxley's writing, and it spills all over his latest novel. But where Brave New World was a neat stiletto jab into the tender hide of the reforming perfectionists, Ape and Essence, a poorer novel, is a rather crude bludgeon indiscriminately aimed at all men's thick skulls...
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...