Word: pricks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Happy Valley, Tenn., was full of new trouble last week. Ten thousand idle hands itched with mischief. Strikers from the American Bemberg and Glantzoff artificial silk factories at Elizabethton, Tenn., felt the prick of National Guard bayonets...
...girl was next brought in. She, pretty Maria Elena Manzano, 21, had previously confessed that Mother Concepcion told her to dance with General Obregon and prick him with a poisoned lancet. Further she stated that she had been upbraided by Mother Concepcion for losing her nerve and failing to prick...
...tutorial systems in the world. Yes, a larger and more beautiful stadium would be just as desirable and welcome as a ventilating system in the basement of Widener;--but let us give some real meaning to a debating union by bringing to its forum the intellectual problems that prick the consciences of our undergraduates and by making it a hot bed where ideas can germinate and find a voice. Sydney Hubert Blackstone...
Jesters, and all those who find in the world's armor of convention the vulnerable joints through which to prick with tiny irritating shafts and barbs have always been a persecuted brotherhood. When jesters were really in fashion, the indignities were such uncomfortably tangible things as straw-beds, and a monkey or two to share the couch. In latter days, Puritans, police and preachers contrive to make life at least exciting for the Merry Andrews, and, incidentally, to provide further food for fun. But not until now, so far as we can tell, has merriment and its disciples been subjected...
...five years the farm-threat has hung dagger-like above the Republican party. But so impotent has been the Democratic party that the farmers have never let the dagger drop except to prick here and there a political life. For three and one-half years, President Coolidge has unequivocally opposed every farm bill which the farm bloc desired. And, while he has not signed any of the bills which the farm bloc did not want, he has never offered any plan of relief. He has confined himself to advising farmers to cooperate on their own initiative. Hitherto, the President...