Word: hoisted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...material directly from the blotter of a Canadian police court and it is also asserted, on poorer authority, that some of the incidents in his play will be discussed in a temple of justice far closer to Broadway. Said Burns Mantle, able critic to the N. Y. Daily News: "Hoist the warnings! Go tell Jimmie Sinnott, the mayor's censor!* The prostitutes are back...
Fifty-two thousand San Diegoists read the Union and Tribune every day. These two papers have been and will be Republican; will try to hoist Hoover to the Presidency. But Col. Copley is no haughty, hard-to-get-to hero of the frigid rich. He is a Mason, an Elk, a Knight of Pythias...
Michael Bonney, though, was not one of these janitors whose business is to hoist dumbwaiters and trundle garbage pails, beating upon them. He was numbered among janitors who waddle through the hallways of innumerable college dormitories. To alumni a legend of competence, to faculty members a jovial rock of propriety, to students a genial but unyielding tyrant, he had spent 54 years of his life upon the campus of the College of the City of New York. As his father had done when Michael Bonney was only a small, destructive hobbledehoy, he gave his time to tidying bedrooms and fixing...
...show in Manhattan which needed publicity, it was theirs. They had a suspicion that the constituency of the second largest and indisputably grossest tabloid in Manhattan was not of such a high order of humanity but that it would applaud the spectacle of its pastor and master, hoist with his own porno-petard...
...this operetta in the present manner, we have brimming beakers, tavern brawls, heralds issuing defies, and vagabonds made kings for a day, wooing beautiful ladies pursued by grasping Brugundian nobles. Francois Villon once again lives as the Robin Hood of France; Louis XI consults his astrologer; bibulous rogues hoist their beakers while their voices are raised in fulsome drinking songs; Scottish Guards march boldly; and court ladies make one regret the passing of gallantry in favor of equal rights...