Word: cudgeling
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...gamy Memphis another clean-up campaign was in full swing, and as usual owl-eyed, benign Boss Ed Crump, 67, was the prime cudgel-wielder. This time he was after the cats. Memphis songbirds were in peril, said the boss, so cats must go. A "nice house cat" was all right, but tramps of either sex were out. Promptly cattraps began to appear in Memphis back yards, particularly those of county and city employes. County Commissioner Francis Andrews trapped three right...
...college presents the possibility of similar suspensions whenever a Smith paper or magazine prints some article that the administration does not like. A college publication which is not free to criticize its institution is practically useless. It is unfortunate that no other Smith editors took up the cudgel on behalf of their unfortunate sister, for by failing to do so they were contributing to their own nullification...
...Vega (alias Zorro), the Spanish Robin Hood of sixteenth century California. He rescues peasants, puts villains to the sword, and woos fair ladies with swashbuckling bravado. But porcine Engene Pallete steals acting honors as a he-man parish priest who crosses himself with one hand while wielding a wicked cudgel with a other. Basil Rathbone, who dictates to the local Franco, meets the just desserts of sneering down a long nose; and Linda Darnell drops in just long enough for two kisses. All of which goes to make "Mark of Zorro" a colorful, exciting mellerdrammer...
Eaton Wields Cudgel...
...Statesman & Nation took up the same cudgel, laid it on with a different intent. It hoped by the removal of Lord Halifax to facilitate democratic "counterrevolution" against Hitlerism throughout the Continent (TIME, July 22). "Here is a moment of supreme psychological importance. . . . The peoples of Europe know far better than Lord Halifax that the French capitulation has closed an epoch of history and they ask themselves anxiously, 'is the battle now between Hitler's New European Order and the Old British Empire?' Or is it, as they desire but hardly dare to hope, between the lords...