Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when his impudent antics in Parliament dismayed William Ewart Gladstone, he jibed so often at counsel and witnesses that he soon won the traditional accolade of eccentricity by being cartooned (in cap & bells) by Max Beerbohm. Never at a public school or university, he lost no chance to poke fun at sporting Britain, thought football "muddy," cricket a "bore," maintained that marbles was his game...
...Party to the Society of Jesus, its supremacy in the U.S.S.R. to that of the Pope in his temporal glory. They quote Stalin: "We may say that the dictatorship of the proletariat is substantially the dictatorship of the Party, as the force which effectively guides the proletariat." The Webbs poke mild fun at the Bolshevik fondness for the word "dictatorship,'' think it a misnomer for the Party's "inspiration, evocation and formulation of a General Will'' among Russia's millions. The Party is outside the constitution; it broods over the body politic like...
...Yorker of 30 years ago in the solecisms of the Lower East Side. Not once did he mention the name of Franklin Roosevelt, but every long word that he twisted his raucous tongue around, every point that he drove home with platitudinous common sense, every uproarious poke at the New Deal invited comparison with the polished plausibility of the Squire of Hyde Park. He made no attempt to grapple with the New Deal in argument. His was what his friends would call an appeal to principle and his enemies an appeal to prejudice. A score of times he made...
...unseen tsar of a million destinies, he had in his grasp three U. S. towns, complete with their industries, police force, politics. In devious but sufficiently direct ways he controlled everything that went on therein. Of the many simmering pies to which his finger had the prime right of poke, his armament industry was the pet. And armaments meant not simply steel but explosives, gas, chemicals...
President Conant delivered a neat poke at Governor Curley and brought a widely known educator to Harvard yesterday when he appointed Payson Smith, ousted Massachusetts Commissioner of education, as lecturer on Education at the Graduate School of Education...