Word: gimlet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge William Squire Kenyon, appeared in Washington Brig. -Gen. Smedley Darlington ("Gimlet Eye") Butler, famed marine, recent drier-up Quantico, Va. (but not of Philadelphia, where his strongarm methods were disapproved). For two hours he told them what he thought of Prohibition: "The grossest piece of class legislation in the country's history . . . like using 16-in. guns to kill sparrows...
...names "Old Gimlet Eye'' and "Hell Devil Darling" are Marine Corps synonyms for Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler. So admirable has been his policing of Tientsin, during the Chinese Civil War (TIME, June 25 et ante), that last week he received a supreme honor from grateful China, an honor which a Chinese town or city can confer only with the unanimous consent of every citizen...
Pompously 200 Civic Elders led a gorgeous procession to the G. H. Q. of "Old Gimlet Eye." Each elder had written his name on a tag, had attached the tag to the rim of a magnificent red satin umbrella, from which banners also streamed. This was the supreme gift: THE UMBRELLA OF TEN THOUSAND BLESSINGS WITH BANNERS...
History. Patently the integrity of Philadelphia's police has been impaired since the regime of Brigadier-General Smedley Darlington ("Gimlet Eye") Butler, Philadelphia's Director of Public Safety from 1923 to 1925. General Butler, taking time out from a rip-snorting career in the U. S. Marine Corps, so disciplined his men and so terrorized the gangsters that before he left he had made himself unpopular also with the pleasure-loving Better Element. His farewell to the city included the charge that the then Mayor, W. Freeland Kendrick, was unwilling to disturb rich prohibition violators or alleged violators...
...Tientsin, the port nearest to Peking, were U. S. Brigadier General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U. S. forces of 3,950, and Allied troops bringing the total up to some 8,600, all subject in case of a general emergency to General Arai of Japan...