Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Higgins was one of those who formed the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State in 1921. "We were simply eight young men," he has said, "standing amid the ruins of one administration, with the foundations of an-other not yet laid, and with wild men screaming through the key-hole...
...President Coolidge sent Smedley Darlington Butler to this key post of high responsibility? General Butler is a name which called up very recently no more than his comic tribulations as "Dry Tsar" of Philadelphia (TIME, Jan. 4, 1926). When the President would not extend his leave to go on with that job, General Butler resigned from the Marine Corps, only to lose immediately his post as "Dry Tsar." Nothing but the complacency of the Navy Department enabled General Butler to withdraw his resignation and scuttle back into the Corps. Yet now it is General Butler who commands...
What percentage of mankind will jab a hatpin, ice pick or nail file through a knothole or key hole when they have reason to suspect that a human eye is pressed against the exterior of such an orifice...
Viewed in this light the criticisms offered by the Student Council Report appear to be a little off-key. While serving a useful purpose in pointing out the difficulties in the way, difficulties which are very real, it is so full of little things that it has overlooked the big thing...
...became clear that Signor Mussolini's declaration was "defensive," not "offensive," in intent when once there was placed before the passage quoted another which altered, almost reversed its meaning. Correspondents did not quote this key passage in the original transmission, and it only came to light, 48 hours late, when the New York Times had the whole 9,000 word speech cabled at thrifty week-end rates...