Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duffy is a traitor!", then ducked in for the shillalah work. Some of them set upon General O'Duffy, bludgeoned him bloody-pated before he could get into the meeting hall. Next the howling Kerrymen burned his automobile, waited until the meeting was finished, took a new grip on their shillalahs, fresh handfuls of rock and roared "Come...
Industrial Front. The ambitions of labor to organize all industry and the resistance of employers to such a program continued to produce clashes which overshadowed most other NRA doings. So sure did William Green, A. F. of L. president, feel of his grip on NRA that last week he boldly demanded that his organization be made an official co-administrator of all codes. NRA was almost as busy settling strikes and getting union men back to work as it was in creating new jobs for the unemployed. The coal strike hinged directly on the coal code which required the President...
...brushed but of slightly archaic cut that smacks of the wheat fields and the Bauernbund. His most noticeable characteristics are his smile, which is constant, and the strength of his fingers. Like most Austrians he is a politely limp handshaker, but to hearty knuckle-grinders he can return a grip of steel. In the Dollfuss character, nothing is so important as his ardent, almost fanatical Catholicism. Each morning, before going to the same big sunny office in the Chancellery that Prince Metternich used, he prays for half an hour. Just before church comes his exercise, on his knees too. With...
...behind it a rich and fruitful earth, but sweeping away the preeminence of the Brahmins. The God-fearing Bostonians who had listened piously to the great Unitarians and had contributed to the worthy from the stores laid up by their slave-trading, rum-running, bundling ancestors, were losing their grip. The day of the Copley-Plaza arrived, and with it cosmetics, and the knowledge that the world is large. Entertainment was a bit gayer, a bit grander, though never ostentatious. And every Back Bay Lass chosen for the Vincent Club looked a bit closer for the right undergraduate from Cambridge...
...prosecutor wheeled around, faced the jury and shouted: "The nation has been in the grip of a deplorable wave of kidnapping. As soon as the message is sent out from this room that a jury has said a man shall hang for this kidnapping, you will have taken a big step to stop that wave...