Word: potshot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night. It tells of simple-souled Alonzo P. Goodhue (Victor Moore), snatched from happy hours of horseshoe-pitching in Topeka, Kans. to be ambassador to Soviet Russia. His one desire is to get fired. He kicks the Nazi ambassador in the belly and the world cheers. He takes a potshot at a stranger who turns out to be a dangerous counter-revolutionary assassin, and the Soviet Union goes hysterical with gratitude. Only when Alonzo tries to do a good deed is he promptly booted...
...dictation, called for a regular election. Fortnight ago, they arranged a meeting to agitate for their rights, invited several hundred Labor sympathizers from Mexico City to attend. Boss Cedillo's men opened fire on the gathering from hotel windows, cafe doors. Throwing up street barricades, the two groups potshot at each other for eight hours, were stopped by the arrival of Federal troops. Four lay dead, several wounded...
...bills up for passage by the Legislature was to gerrymander Judge Pavy's judicial district in such a way as to effect his ouster. Brooding darkly on this piece of petty politics, Carl Weiss apparently thought he was doing his father-in-law a favor by taking a potshot at Boss Long...
...lady who has left her overbearing banker husband for a small apartment of her own. There she unexpectedly finds herself playing unwilling hostess to a Communist fugitive (Walter Siezak, ingratiating young hero of Music in the Air). He is supposed to be a German Red who has taken a potshot at Adolf Hitler. It appears to be a breach of party discipline to shoot individuals, but he hopes to be forgiven on the grounds of "youthful exuberance." His charm, his broken English and his pistol persuade Miss Claire not to give him up to the police...
About a year ago Page No. 22 began to come to life as a critic of the New Deal. Since last New Year's not a Tuesday has gone by without a potshot or broadside by Editor George Horace Lorimer in the general direction of Washington. Recurrently the Post flayed the Brain Trust, the Treasury, NRA, ''made" work, experimentation, the Democratic Party, President Roosevelt. It proclaimed that the Government's "spending spree" was conceived to "make [the world] safe for everyone except those who have saved." Of wealth it warned that "redistribution can easily become confiscation." Its editorial titles seemed...