Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thrust in your fatal dagger to the hilt...
What is this dagger Justice Stone sees before him? There is certainly no resentment against the Supreme Court in the country today. Can the screechings of one or two stormy petrels in the halls of Congress frighten the secure justices of the highest court of the land? Considering the attitude of the country last May when the court voided the N.R.A. there is no possibility that public opinion will now suddenly and vindictively rise up against it. Nor has the prestige of the tribunal diminished in any degree since that time...
Then, too, there are the scales, dagger, and document used by Edmund Keane in his portrayal of Shylock in the "Merchant of Venice," a candle snuffer used by Ellen Terry, and a bronze statue of Sarah Bernhardt presented to her by the magician Houdini...
...hard to believe that France by her recalcitrant attitude is sticking a veritable dagger into the back of the League of Nations of whom she herself has been for so many years the protector and godmother. To point out the glory which will belong to Geneva if the African war is curtailed would be redundant. To say that insincere action on her part during the current crisis is suicide is a truth which Europe gloomily faces...
...dead in the long run. . . . Three bodies out of one car were so soaked with oil from the crankcase that they looked like wet browrn cigars and not human at all; a man, walking around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dead and dying, even oblivious of the dagger-like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl out of a ditch in spite of her smashed hip. A first-class massacre of that sort is only a question of scale and numbers...