Word: hilt
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...prestige of France and Germany had become involved up to the hilt over a matter intrinsically of secondary import. Premier Briand was expected by his countrymen to insert Poland as a buttress against anti-French influence on the Council from Germany. Chancellor Luther was daily instructed from Berlin that he must withdraw the German application for League membership if the Council was going to be packed against Germany. Sir Austen Chamberlain found himself in a still more awkward position. The British press flayed him daily because he did not insist that, whatever happened, Germany must be got within the League...
...world's stadium is crowded. The eyes of the world are looking on. The victory will be for humanity. But this is not a game. It is a fight. It is a war? war to the hilt...
...period, when he was in "a merry mood," he was asked to cut an enormous birthday cake "Certainly," replied the Prince, "I'll do anything you like." The top two layers of the cake were removed and Prince, seizing a knife, plunged it up to the hilt into the cake. To his horror and to the amusement of the guests he found that he could neither cut the cake nor move the knife. The cake was fake...
...loses her rebellious husband in the shuffle. Her feminine friends within her own party cattily try to dig their claws into her. She mortgages her home up to the hilt, although the woman treasurer of her party has blandly decided that there will be no campaign expenses whatsoever. In the end it is a rough and ready politician of the practical school, skilled in all the ruses and handshaking diplomacy of the Old Guard, who saves her from defeat by the naive expedient of voting a large number of dead...
...hundred years ago, and in some localities even less, the rapier was not carried purely as an ornament with which to set off the latest thing in filigree lace from Venice or Aleppo. It was a weapon, and for Monsieur le Comte to be seen in public without his hilt resting beneath his left hand was an occasion for the wildest conjecture. As is the case with almost everything else, however, the halo, of romance which formerly hung about the point of the sword has congealed into a small tape-wrapped button, and the wrought gold basket work...