Word: bogeyman
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...offer a consulting service in noise abatement. Chief abater will be "Dr. Shush," the Maxim trademark character, who looks like a caricature of Hiram Percy Maxim's uncle, the late explosive-making Hudson Maxim (1853-1927). But "Dr. Shush" is really Hiram Percy Maxim, noise's bogeyman. Remarkable have been the Maine family of Maxims. Hudson Maxim, who started business as a printer, was the first to make smokeless powder in the U. S. Maxim, N. J. was named for him. He sold his powder inventions to E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. and became their consulting...
Never was the favor of U. S. bankers sought more openly. Mr. Wiggin's approach seemed to have been the signal for Herr Hitler, long a bogeyman to bankers, suddenly to transform himself into the Bankers' Friend. As for his repudiation of Reparations, many U. S. bankers have become so concerned about the safety of their short-term credits that "the sanctity of Reparations" begins to sound like an old French song sung...
...bogeyman Napoleon faded from memory and young Reform lifted its head, old diehard Tory Wellington lost his popularity. Twice his windows were broken by a mob; on Waterloo's anniversary he was trailed home by hooting hoodlums. The Duke, impervious to mobs, merely thought the country was going to the dogs. But before he died at 83, public opinion had swung round again: he was universally respected and, as only a public character can be, beloved...
...International Economic Conference and at the Pan-American Commercial Conference, a foreign-debt bogeyman came to the Chamber's assembly. He was Thomas W. Lamont (J. P. Morgan & Co. partner) who warned against indiscriminate lending of money abroad. U. S. investment bankers are competing so strenuously to place clients' money, that they are demoralizing European governments...
...there was many an unmeasured invective hurled at Mr. Rockefeller personally. He was the bogeyman of the fundamentalists. The week before this convention the fundamentalists, unrestrained by any show of amity, had met, also in Washington, at the Baptist Bible Union of North America...