Word: bolt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apoplectically opposed to votes for women marries a beautiful and unbudgeable suffragette (Joan Tetzel). The suffragette, finding all the men in her new family just as unbudging, makes converts, and then confederates, of the womenfolk. The wives, remembering Aristophanes' bawdy Lysistrata, stage a sex strike and bolt their doors. The husbands, remembering San Francisco's bordello-lined Barbary Coast, toss off some drinks and bolt the house. After an act of shenanigans, the two parties trade concessions...
James A. Cronin, son of the noted Jim, exclaimed "how they are drinking! The boys bolt in, grab a large quantity of beer, bolt it, and fly back to their books. They don't stay long, but drink fast and plenty...
...constantly appraising. ... He would say, 'I cannot afford the luxury of sentiment. ... It is not easy to tell men they have failed. ... I cannot allow myself to get angry. . . .'" But Mrs. Marshall also wrote: " [They] have never seen him when he is aroused. It is like a bolt of lightning out of the blue. His withering vocabulary and the cold steel of his eyes would sear the soul of any man deserving censure...
...Teachers talk about proper eating habits and cleanliness in the classrooms," he declares, "but when lunch bell rings. The fastidious lad who tries to wash his hands finds no soap or towels in a filthy little washroom, and there is barely time to bolt his food down even if he makes a track start at the door...
...Teachers talk about proper eating habits and cleanliness in the class-rooms," he points out, "but when the lunch bell rings the fastidious lad who tries to wash his hands finds no soap or towels in a filthy little washroom, and there is barely time to bolt his food down and return even if he makes a track start at the door...