Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moral is slight. However, if and when the chosen few who edit the Guide Book see fit to revise it, it is strongly urged that they include hammer and chisel as essentials on any blind date. Venturing further, the day may come when a mass descent upon Radcliffe and Wellesley (with weapons) will remove this orthodontical veneer that has covered the female searcher after knowledge since time immemorial, and, oh happy day, render the feminine campus a joy forever. Arma virumque cano...
...last week that he was appointing a special committee to scrutinize the morals of lawyers, accountants and special agents who argue tax cases before the Treasury Bar. He advised the conventionites to oust voluntarily from their association out-&-out crooks, over-sharp connivers and boasters of special influence. To hammer home a point that has made a bad smell in Washington for many a year, he sent to the Bar convention his youngish assistant general counsel, Robert Houghwout Jackson...
...games Il Duce threw two armies, totaling 100,000 men, into the barren rocky country between Bologna and Florence. There the Red army of attack began to hammer a Blue defending force. The object of Italy's General Staff was to test in the nearest approach to battle conditions that they could create all the elaborate mechanical devices with which munitions makers have been whiling away the quiet years. Troops will advance this week under shell barrages. There will be clouds of real tear gas to penalize those slow with their masks. Benito Mussolini is particularly anxious to find...
...Before Nazidom gagged the Fatherland's jokesmiths they used to hammer out an anecdote in which Adolf Hitler, dozing at the opera, woke up to mistake a fat, gorgeously dressed Lohengrin for Göring and shouted at him: "No, Hermann! That's going...
...with violent and vociferous alarm. The Senate's No. 1 Inflationist, who likes to he photographed in tattered overalls to publicize the debtor's plight, considered it bad enough to have President Roosevelt temporarily peg the dollar at 59.06˘ last January but to have Governor Harrison attempt to hammer it down permanently on gold at that level was more than he could stand. To Governor Harrison at Basle he dispatched a sizzling 1,500-word cablegram at 10˘ per word (at his own expense) which indicated how much steam inflationists still have up in their boilers. Excerpts...