Word: poniard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Signor Mussolini rattles his poniard and makes large, inclusive gestures, the world makes a mental note of it and passes on, becoming less and less perturbed by each bombastic reiteration. But when he takes a definite national step, the world cocks an attentive ear. This time The Leader has planned a reduction, for the whole populace of wages and the cost of living, presumably simultaneously, both of the items to be lowered by ten or twelve per cent. Faced with severe international competition in the shrinking world market, Italy is forced, says Mussolini, to lower costs drastically. And this...
...people committed suicide because the cover pictures on TIME did not look anything like the people they chose to represent, I would have abundant cause to put a long, shiny poniard in my heart after seeing what was supposed to be a picture of Secretary Woodin on the front of the issue of March 20. It is my opinion that the man who made that picture began it as a picture of L. M. Howe, changed it to an Australian Bushman and ended up with a Bloodhound...