Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three and one-half years ago, appreciating what a hammering the policies of his friend Franklin Roosevelt were receiving from the opposition press, Vincent Astor consented to finance a weekly magazine called Today, to hammer back. Editor was Mr. Roosevelt's close adviser, Dr. Raymond Moley...
...even such a hair-breadth distinction as this was not too small to be split by the hawk-eye wielder of the hammer at the Maintenance building. About a week age a brand new feel-proof device appeared at tached to the door. A package could get in, but an arm couldn...
...Spaniards who happen to be named Alfonso, plenty of Reds also celebrated in Red territory-for to many a Spaniard things superficially religious are basically just Spanish. Thus last spring, during Holy week in Seville, a group of particularly resolute Communists, wearing Red arm bands with the hammer & sickle, with the holsters of pistols peeping from their pockets, escorted through the streets the life-size figure of the Virgin Mary belonging to their district. "We don't trust those Fascist swine!" explained one of these Reds. "They pretend to be good Catholics but we are sure they...
...complete building with its own press, private rooms for about fifteen different sorts of editor, dozens of telephones and typewriters. a dark room where photographs can be transformed into blocks at lightning speed, an editorial room where all those not important enough for rooms of their own hammer hard-boiled news paragraphs on to typewriters with the efficiency of trained secretaries, real paid secretaries too, for the big-wigs, a club room for the staff complete with library, piano and radio and a general air of do-it-now efficiency startling to one brought up in the old world tradition...
Through narrow streets of Riga one day last fortnight rushed excited Latvians to see what was going on at the old Cathedral of St. Mary. There a man half stood, half dangled, his left hand spiked to the Cathedral's heavy oak door. Brandishing a hammer in his free hand, the man was shouting: "I want to save the world from a new world war by this crucifixion!" Police pried the nail out with the hammer, took the man to a hospital...