Word: cutlasses
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...opening campaign speech little Fiorello tossed away his prepared manuscript, grabbed off his horn-rimmed glasses and used them alternately as a cutlass, a rapier, a backscratcher, a wand, a scepter, a drumstick and a trowel. He touched his toes, imitated a football player's kickoff, spat on an imaginary apple and polished it on his sleeve. He told the audience that his extra work came out of him and not out of the city. He ridiculed critics who complain of his Washington visits: "I saw the city needed this. . . . The bankers wanted to charge...
Next day, in accord with the bosses' announcement, Bruce Barton was nominated for the Senate. The demonstration for him from the aggrieved pros was pathetically feeble, but Tom Dewey, in an atmosphere of sportsmanship, revived the convention into fighting mood with a cutlass-sharp, partisan speech...
...Wall Street's head, in sun-flecked Trinity churchyard, lies the dust of Capt. James Lawrence beneath his self-written epitaph: "Don't Give Up the Ship." Dead with him is the naval tradition of wooden ships and iron men, of boarding parties and the cutlass: the soul of the new navy is in intricate organization, in armorplate, in complex fire-control mechanisms and in 16-inch guns...
...Kidnapped, R. L. S. takes the count. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck. the better to display a fine figure of a lass named Arleen Whelan, has shifted many of the novel's best scenes to strange and shadowy positions, has relegated to the attic the memorable ball-and-cutlass siege of the Brig Covenant's roundhouse, has made storied Patriot Alan Breck (Warner Baxter) play nursemaid...
...laugh, for Gogarty is never reverent even where he admires. Queerest fish of the lot is one "Endymion," who regularly steers his course home by compass, was once arrested for sabering a ham (which he had previously bought) running off with it on the end of his cutlass...