Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip. . . . Attention is directed forcefully to the Code provision restricting any information regarding [his] movements. . . ." By Jan. 25, when the printable news reached their desks, with another 32 hours before it could be officially released (at 10 p.m. E.W.T., the 26th), they had fidgets. Meanwhile they hinted to the hilt...
Some time later Winchell calmed down sufficiently to hear the news that the great needler had been needled, to the hilt. Blue Network wags had concocted the phony item to celebrate the gossipist's completion of ten years on the air for the same sponsor...
Eberstadt stuck stubbornly to his ground. In untangling WPB organization and getting results, he had done a fine job. In appointing Armstrong, he had stood alone against Washington's best advice. But Donald Nelson had neither backed him to the hilt when he was right nor stopped him when he was wrong...
Saltonstall was one of the first prominent officials to back Roosevelt's foreign policy to the hilt all the way. And he not only talked, but acted. Long before Pearl Harbor, the first state Committee on Public Safety was set up, and an efficient civilian defense organization was functioning by December 7. The future has been an object of serious thought, too, with the organization of a Post-War Readjustment Committee to prepare for a possible depression and drop in production. He has been an honest, efficient, and experienced Governor, and as such should be given the opportunity to serve...
...really ignorant; just dumb." The really juicy part, though, is Gaylord Mason's. He's Norman, the guiding genius of the mad household of actors who will--and do--resort to anything to get the attention of a theatrical producer. He plays the part up to the hilt, with enough vigor and enthusiasm to keep the whole thing going by himself...