Word: hitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholicism on Aryan soil he threw all the immorality trials into the courts at the same time. He hoped that wholesale convictions would destroy the prestige of the Catholic Church for good, that the Reich's 2,000,000 or so Catholic children would be transformed without a hitch into little Brown Shirts...
...last week finally reached its climax on Coronation Day in Westminster Abbey. The element of conflict, without which no news story is great, lay between the reverent, laborious effort of the British people to stage a tremendous spectacle and perform a solemn ritual without any hitch, harm or boggle, and the implacable forces of Chance, innocent or vicious, which might suddenly transform their great drama into farce or tragedy, as a little spark did last fortnight at Lakehurst...
Delayed when one of the Yale players who was hitch-hiking to Cambridge hurt his thumb on a telegraph pole, the annual Crimson-and-Blue tiddledy-winks contest got under way yesterday afternoon in the Tiddley-winks Room at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...arrange terms. Darnell discovered shy young Bob Esterbrook, whose reserve soon vanished on his later visit to Washington. The Senator got his $100,000 fee. a quarter down, the balance to be paid C. O. D. But delivering the goods was worth every cent of it. The first hitch was when old Senator Mayne of Mishawauka said the candidate was incompetent, refused to endorse him. Unexpected opposition came from influential Ferris Branolsky, a tireless fanatic in tracing the smells from big receiverships. The first obstacle to be removed was old Senator Mayne, who died of a stroke in a heroic...
...unexpected flair for swashbuckling satire on the part of reedy Actor George Curzon, who last year played a somewhat insipid Parnell in Parmil, an unpleasant maniac in Black Limelight. Apparently no more actionable than a last year's film (Sing, Baby, Sing) along the same story lines, Hitch Your Wagon would probably seem to such an experienced theatre man as John Barrymore rather less amusing...