Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Legion on the Soldier Bonus. The weapon had been fashioned by Daniel Webster, mighty verbal swordsman, at a Whig reception at Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, in 1837. Unearthed by French Strother, White House research secretary, it was still so pat and pointed that President Hoover grasped its hilt and made it flash and glitter in a statement explaining why the U. S. could neither tax nor borrow two billions out of its people to pay off the Bonus (see p. 8). Declared the President...
During the trial, which ended last week, the prosecutor produced no evidence linking Senora Mariana de la Torre Mendoza to the attempted crime but proved up to the hilt that she has often voiced antagonism to President Machado. That was enough for the court martial. It sentenced all the accused to 14 years penal servitude each...
Sportsman William Henry Vander-"hilt, whose four-in-hand coach was used as a model for the current edition of Christmas seals of the National Tuberculosis Association (TIME, Dec. 7). complained because the artist placed the driver on the left side of the box instead of the right...
...Baby. "His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. De tar hilt 'im. But Tar-Baby, she stay still, en Brer...
Most thoroughgoing newspaper in the world is the august New York Times. Last week on a financial page appeared hilt-high proof of its claim to that title. Under the headline CALL LOANS IN JUNE HELD AT 4% RATE appeared a story beginning: "Call Loan rates on the New York Stock Exchange were at H per cent throughout all of June. . . . The renewal average for call loans in June was 1.500 per cent. . . ." Below came a complete, full-length table showing the % call loan rate on each & every one of June's 30 days, arranged in this manner: June...