Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There's a mighty favorable rate of exchange at the Shubert this week, where "DuBarry Was a Lady" is the attraction. You put down your money and you get a Cole Porter revue, costumed, syncopated, gagged, and sexed up to the hilt. Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr perform in their best manner, with everything from the fake marble walls of a night-club men's room to the tufted satin of Louis XV's court as settings. Their special brand of humor seems even funnier when its spice is set off against the elegance of the French court...
...Hitler where more experienced generals would not. This week Brauchitsch was a name to put beside those of Moltke, Ludendorff and Schlieffen: not only was he Germany's No. 1 Krieger (warrior), but he had fostered, planned and led the Blitzkrieg-and proved its validity up to the hilt...
That morning, dangling his withered left hand on a shiny sabre-hilt, Wilhelm II was considering an ultimatum to Russia (sent the following day): cease mobilization in twelve hours or Germany will fight. Stock exchanges in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, St. Petersburg were already closed in panic. But the London Exchange had had business as usual that Thursday. Many a U. S. businessman waved away Wilhelm's ultimatum as "pure bluff." At 23 Wall Street Mr. Morgan & friends emerged from meeting after three hours, confident there would be no World War. They announced the New York Exchange would remain open...
...everything changed. Or rather, Vag's outlook on them changed. Like lovers about to separate, all the Little Things became important. They suddenly were big Little Things--things which would never occur again in just the same way. They had to be studied, noticed, appreciated to the hilt with a new solemnity. The very atmosphere of this Harvard was to be sipped in, sounds and sights were to be inhaled--treasured...
...went on to say that it would sell or exchange 24 operating companies farther west, if SEC insisted, but would retain its Philippine properties as beyond the scope of the law. Ably playing to the hilt the new role of reformed penitent, the company announced: "While the changes . . . are of a sweeping character, obedience to the law, and a loyal respect for public opinion, demand that the task be performed in the best of faith...