Word: fists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Marion Zioncheck almost started a fist fight on the House floor when he clashed again with Representative Blanton. "The gentleman from Texas once said I was doped," he roared. "And I shall put it into the record that the gentleman from Texas is a son of a Texan. On second thought I'll revise my remark and leave a blank for the final word." Representative Blanton charged at him, was subdued by colleagues. Few days later the Representative from Washington took up his feud once more. This time the House soundly rebuked him by voting...
Briton against Briton? With the Rhineland crisis thus tangled some European wiseacres believed a story that Ambassador von Ribbentrop had banged his fist on Mr. Anthony Eden's desk and uttered threats. The most painstaking and detached analysis of the situation was by seasoned Vladimir Poliakoff, the "Augur"' of the New York Times, who wrote: "Behind the smoke screen of the Franco-German tussle over the Rhineland... an internal political crisis is slowly maturing in London. No less is in the balance than the choice of a successor to Stanley Baldwin as leader of the Conservative Party...
Whatever its sins and indiscretions, the velocipede deserves no such tyrannical treatment. From Dunster House to Divinity the clicking of the chain and the whirring of the silver spokes are forever silenced, and Fascism has thrust its iron fist into the Yard for the first time. The insidious forces of United Shoe Machinery, General Motors, and Standard Oil, hurling the lie at those who said it couldn't happen here, have made a vital stab at the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity...
...sell his Soviet notes at a large discount. The Josefowitz', confident that Russia would pay its bills, bought the notes at from 25% to 40% less than their face value. As the Soviet Government redeemed its obligations, the Josefowitz family was said to have prospered hand over fist...
...sharp that he had been excommunicated by the Catholic Church, his corpse barred from burial in consecrated ground. The snout of Socialist Monnet's car incensed the mourning Royalists, three of whom, an insurance agent, a chauffeur and an architect, recognized Socialist Blum. The insurance agent shook his fist, the chauffeur spat on the glass window from which peered Leon Blum, and the architect set a glass-smashing example with his cane to other Royalists, who soon broke the car's lamps and windshield.* Someone tore off the rear license plate and dashed it through a window...