Word: poked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...juicy a scandal as I'Affaire Koutiepoff could not be laid on the shelf without a sniff and a playful poke from that irrpressible gourmet, M. Léon Daudet, editor of the flamboyant Royalist sheet Action Française. "Mark my words!" he wrote. ''War will come of this in a few months...
Finally Mr. Ford took a poke at his only English rivals, Sir Herbert Austin and Sir William Richard Morris.* They make "baby cars," the Austin 7 (7 h. p.) and the Morris-Cowley because in England larger cars pay a terrific license tax ($225 yearly for a Rolls-Royce, $120 for a U.S. Ford, $50 for the special "British Ford" with smaller motor [10 h. p.], $35 for an Austin). So far so good, but Mr. Ford plainly told the English motor tycoons that it is foolish (for them to try and sell "baby cars" in the British Dominions, where...
...Snappy accuracy and not weak pushes must feature this department of play. The center's job is to feed his wings, who in turn must be free to take the pass and apply the death thrust. Throughout the nine games played so far, too, the use of the poke check by the forwards has not been as efficient as it might. The first game of the 1929 Yale series, which the Crimson won by a 2 to 1 count, showed the victors employing this check not only as a defensive but also as an offensive weapon and the result...
...Politically speaking, the Orient is like a jelly-poke one part of it and it all shakes," acknowledged Observer Lodge. But, he suggested, Europe might be benefited if a colonial safety valve were permitted to a certain country with well-known colonizing experience. In short, perhaps it would be wise to sell the Philippines to Germany...