Word: bogeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baggy Heywood Broun who had long been one of the President's most ardent journalistic supporters: "It is impossible to dodge the fact that the newspaper publishers have cracked down on the President . . . and that Franklin D. Roosevelt has cracked up. . . . The publishers have trotted out that old bogey, freedom of the Press. [They] announce that 'a satisfactory adjustment' has been reached. They mean satisfactory to the publishers. . . . The President made no attempt to learn from the Guild its bill of complaints against the stupidities and inequities of the Newspaper Industrial Board. . . . The Government . . . has been held...
...Stannie to prevent the apparently inevitable manage de convenance, Silas Barnaby kidnaps one of the Three Little Pigs and plants a string of sausages in Tom-Tom's house to make it appear that Tom-Tom is guilty of the crime. Tom-Tom is sentenced to exile in Bogey-land but before its inhabitants?miniature King-Kongs with pitchfork teeth?have time to destroy him, the villagers of Toyland discover the real culprit. This leads first to a heroic rescue of Tom-Tom by Ollie and Stannie and finally to a war in which the bogeys are decimated...
Apparently one of the chief bogey-men of the nineteenth century is to be refurbished. The Italian Chamber of Deputies was told by the committee on paid expenditures that "Japan today invades China; inspired by race hatred, she will plan tomorrow against white men." The reason for this revival of the Yellow Peril is, of course, the realization that the realistically minded Japanese have managed in spite of the Washington Treaty to build a field which is, in all likelihood, the equal of any in the world today, and the fact that Japanese commercial competition, particularly in the field...
...Oxenham, who lost his sight in the War, learned to play golf two years ago when a doctor friend thrust a club into his hands, told him what to do. He made that first hole in bogey. Now he plays twice a week, takes his chauffeur as caddie. He explains...
...this material success so softened the socialist movement that by the time Dollfuss, using the Nazis as a bogey, declared a fascist dictatorship, the Socialists had not one revolutionary kick left in them. They did not even attempt a general strike; they merely acquiesced. This was partially due to Dollfuss' cleverness in declaring the dictatorship to stop the Nazis, pet hate of all Marxists. Moving one small step at a time he has not offered the Socialists a sufficient pretext to declare a general strike, yet he has succeeded in gradually hamstringing them by taking away their surplus...