Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt, issued futile counterblasts to the press. They had been doing approximately this since their last agreement expired on April Fools' Day. Two Department of Labor conciliators, after trying to arrange a settlement, indicated that the story-telling was likely to go on until Franklin Roosevelt took a hand...
...catching Harry Hopkins' attention with a treatise entitled "Boom or Bust." He owed his resurrection to his phenomenal vigor, and his facility for digesting great gobs of statistics, transforming them into entrancing, apparently profound diagnoses of national ills. Janizary Tommy Corcoran last year took him in hand, putting his capacities to good use for the Temporary National Economic (antimonopoly) Committee...
...Three rooms and part of the main Chancellery Hall were piled high with presents. Peasants sent their native handiwork. Westphalian women knitted 6,000 pairs of socks for the Fiihrer's soldiers. Housewives got together to bake a six-foot cake. From the more militarily minded came pistols, hand grenades, an assortment of knives and daggers, a live eagle which the Führer will release in the Bavarian Mountains...
...scares and spy scares go hand in hand. Both sides of the Atlantic last week saw a noteworthy outcropping of the latter...
...fools to enlist!" From a hundred throats came a roar: "Yellow!" In a trice Cornell's student body was on its feet, shouting, screaming, stamping. In the midst of the uproar the leader of Cornell's swing band leaped on the platform, saxophone in hand, and began to jam. As Cornell's undergraduates realized that they had been summoned not to a real war but to a fake, they fell in relief to singing pacifist songs...