Word: gauntleted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be a well shaken-up and depleted University crew squad of three boats and two substitutes which will row on the Charles this afternoon, having successfully run the gauntlet of the last fall cut by Coach Stevens...
...Mexico President Obregon had to run the gauntlet of stiff criticisms from his opponents. They charged him with having made concessions to the U. S. in order to obtain recognition. These charges rest on a fairly sound basis. Under the agrarian provision of the 1917 Constitution more Mexicans are said to have been dispossessed of their property than U. S. citizens. If President Obregon intends to indemnify the citizens of the U. S., he can hardly fail to do the right thing by Mexican citizens. It seems, therefore, that the Mexican Treasury must groan or Obregon succumb to the jibes...
...this innovation Mr. Strachey deliberately cast down his gauntlet to the tradition that a newspaper must give the public what it wants. The Spectator had built up an audience of conservative people, and now these people are served with both Conservatism and Socialism. It is disconcerting to the constant readers of The Spectator, and some of them protest volubly by letter. Mr. Strachey still braves these protestants, and is called a traitor for his pains...
Michigan is a state that has voted dry by substantial majorities several times since 1916. Previous to that it was rapidly becoming dry by local option. Senator Couzens virtually threw his gauntlet in the face of this sentiment by declaring that 5% beer was neither worse nor more intoxicating than tea or coffee...
...reference; to Chicago as "this neck of the woods." The spirit of the new outfit is most commendable. "We're going to out some stards into the backbone of the individual, and take a whack at the dictatorship of its political blue-noses." There's the general's gauntlet, and "fifty serious-minded men with yeast in their systems" back up his challenge...