Word: cudgeled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sajami Das were punished for "sedition." The sedition is supposed to lurk between the pages of the book, India in Bondage- Her Right to Freedom. Last week when Poughkeepsie reporters sought out the author, Dr. Jabez Thomas Sunderland, he was ready for them, ready to wield a potent verbal cudgel in defense of the two Indians who sat in a stinking Bengal jail...
...submarine. Said he: "I tore up a speech I had all ready to deliver in Congress. I have found it seems much easier to navigate a submarine from the office building of the House of Representatives than from the conning tower of a submarine." He returned to Congress, his cudgel up for the Navy...
Senator Glass almost asked outright if the loan-reviewing function of the U. S. State Department had not been used as an illegitimate cudgel over the head of France in the current tariff controversy...
...without their hearty cooperation it cannot succeed. Their intimate personal relationship with their students will count for more than any other safeguard. The work of assistants must continue to improve. The technique of course lecturing and examination will have to be overhauled and adjusted and readjusted. General examiners must cudgel their brains and harden their hearts. The relief to the teaching force, though it should ultimately be very great, may for a time be considered smaller than is generally expected
Viscount Lascelles is 44, and still awaiting the death of his father, the Earl of Harewood, 80, sound as a cudgel. Though the King-Emperor often hunts with the Earl of Harewood, His Majesty almost never visits Goldsborough Hall, the estate of Lord Lascelles and Princess Mary. When the Queen-Empress goes there it is noticed, moreover, that Lord Lascelles is usually away. From this state of affairs springs the suspicion, now current in court circles, that Viscount Lascelles pointedly" resents the King-Emperor's neglect in not raising his rank since his marriage to Princess Mary...