Word: hit-and-run
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...issue is not one of reaction against revolution. Landon is as little Bourbon as Roosevelt is Marxist. The choice is rather between an orderly correction of current abuses in the capitalist system, carried out after mature study and in line with constitutional procedure, and a hit-and-run revision of all existing institutions, carried out by the impulses of one man coupled with the endless grasping of pressure groups of every kind...
...statement should not be passed over lightly. Surely this disgraceful situation cannot be known on Beacon Hill; surely if the sacred kingfish of the State House were to find out that irregularities had attended his rise to the seat of power he could not go on as the hit-and-run servant of the people. And even should he feel that he could, this new voice of the people from Dorchester would not permit it, for he has a plan--and in all fairness, it is not a bad plan...
Canadian Authors Douglas & LeCocq dedicate their "confidential guide" to England to "hit-and-run writers from England ... to Mary Queen of Scots, Joan of Arc, and other ladies who have misjudged the English-and to the Atlantic Ocean which keeps us apart." Author LeCocq has been to England; Author Douglas has not. Their little (112-page) satire on their Motherland scores many a palpable hit, is never far off the mark. Both for Americans who have been to England and for those who have never been nearer than Punch, Britannia Waives the Rules will be good interlinear reading...
...stadium Butler was building for his men, snorted: "That's one of your damned follies." Last big row in which Butler was the central figure came in 1929, when he was arrested and ordered court-martialed for retailing an anecdote in which Mussolini figured as a hit-and-run driver. The affair passed off with a reprimand, but in October 1931, having been passed over for Commandant of the Marine Corps although he was the ranking officer, Scrapper Butler finally left the Marines. But he concludes with hoarse defiance: "There's plenty of fight...
Whatever has been said or will be said about the academic changes accomplished by President Lowell, little if any mention will ever be made of his influence in curbing those high speed cyclists who once formed the deadly hit-and-run drivers of the Harvard Yard. But the Vagabond well remembers the scene of conflict in which the constitutionality of bicycle riding was forever adjudged by him whose province it is to guide our peace and order...