Word: petards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant signs. ... In dozens of American communities, large and small, they [gogues] are now being paid in hopes alone: there is no money left in the treasury to meet their salaries. Perhaps the only way out lies in that direction. . . . They are being hoisted by their own petard, hexed by their own magic, drowned in their own juices. It is a desperate remedy, but there seems to be no other...
...vision of the House Plan, culture hoist with its petard...
...when the Dawes Plan was adopted. They feared that if German politicians could depose the head of the Reichsbank they might do so, and appoint a man who would wreck the Dawes Plan. Evidently last week Dr. Schacht thought he had the Allies cleverly hoist by their own petard...