Word: gauntlet
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...Senate was agitating publicity for tax refunds in the first deficiency bill.* Charges had been made that Mr. Mellon's department had secretly doled out large sums in the dark to a favored few. Mr. Mellon wrote to Senator Warren, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, reviewing the "gauntlet" which tax refund claims had to run in the treasury. Said the Secretary...
...Baby (a thuglike gob clutching a gallon bottle of milk and an electrified wand). A royal bootlegger administered a stoup of vinegar & pepper from a whiskey bottle. Then Son Allan was lathered with lampblack, shaved with a wooden razor, dumped into a tank of water and beaten down a gauntlet with cotton clubs...
Encouraged by this signal triumph, Mrs. Palmer sought other worlds to conquer. London beckoned. Forthwith she purchased a house on Carlton Terrace; flung down the gauntlet to Mrs. John W. Mackay for King Edward's favor, and the social leadership it carried. The tourney was magnificent. For one Arabian night's entertainment in 1909, Mrs. Palmer spent $10,000; for one season, $200,000. Discreet King Edward refused to discriminate; shared his attendance equally...
Charles of Flanders, who was but a lad when the War came, stood silent with modestly bowed head during the British singing, beside Edward of Wales, 34, his senior by exactly a decade. Later the two princes, chatting affably, walked together the gauntlet of clicking cameras, mooning women...
...University is counting on the pleasure and honor of entertaining the West Point war lords next fall when they arrive en masse from their Hudson stronghold to cheer on their gridiron team against Harvard in the Stadium October 20 it must first of all throw its gauntlet into the arena in opposition to such a rival as Governor Fuller. For it seems that both Massachusetts in general and Boston in particular have social designs on the Army cadets when they invade the East to display their vocal enthusiasm in the Harvard stands...