Word: cudgeling
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...shown by these eminent gentlemen for conforming to the truth is very laudable, but the surprising thing of course is that this zeal has been so long in manifesting itself. Why was not the word removed from the marriage service long ago? It became obsolete when the caveman's cudgel went out of fashion. For that matter why was it ever put in at all? Of course it found its way in at the instigation of some blundering male. But what man had the temerity to believe that exacting a woman's promise to obey would give him the mastery...
...battle will be held in the Union Living Room at 8 o'clock. Professor Felix Frankfurter of the Law School will take up the cudgel for the La Follette-Wheeler Club. Eliot Wadsworth '98, former Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury and the First Marshall of his class at its 25th reunion, will argue in behalf of President Coolidge and the Republican Party...
With this disillusioned preface, he sets out on the recital of the great fights and fighters from James Figg, master of "the Foil, Backsword, Cudgel, and Fist" to the redoubtable Dempsey. There were, in the days when the knockout to the point of the chin was still unknown, such colorful fighters as Buckhorse, "singularly unsightly," Jack Slack (the Bristol butcher), Mendoza the Jew (founder of scientific boxing, the first boxer to go on the stage), Mr. Jackson (the first "gentleman" fighter), the Belchers, the Game Chicken, and Daniel Donnelly (an Irishman) of whom it was written...
Judge Clarke is a strong supporter of the League of Nations. He voluntarily gave up his position as associate justice of the Supreme Court and Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission to take up the cudgel for the League as a leader of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association. Judge Clarke had become convinced of the importance of the work of educating the public mind in this respect. He considered it of more value to his country and to humanity than his work as justice of the Supreme Court and Chairman of the Commission...
...unfortunately reveal also as little tact as the blindest radicalism: Pankhurst's window smashing, Irish guerilla warfare or I. W. W. bomb plots. In accepting the challenge the college man loses all the advantage which his education gives him, he drops his foil of polite discussion for the cudgel of insult and calumny...