Word: rout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition in the Senate down to a historic low. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley had asked for a two-thirds Democratic majority in the Senate to support President Roosevelt. With a roar of approval the country uprose to give him what he wanted-and more. So complete was the rout of Senate Republicans that Boss Farley could well remark on Election Night: "Famous Republican figures have been toppled into oblivion. In fact, we must wonder who they have left that the country ever heard...
...prospects for tomorrow promise the complete rout of Mr. Macy. Possibly in a last minute attempt he will throw his support to Mayor Marvin of Syracuse. But beaten he will resign the chairmanship and will probably be succeeded by Eaton. Moses undoubtedly will be nominated for Governor. The senatorship is in doubt with John Lord O'Brian coming into prominence as Ham Fish fades out, or there is a slight chance that the convention might indorse Breckinridge with his Constitutional Party. Then the fight will be on with small chance of victory. With the party in a bad mess anyway...
...nervously paced the narrow deck with many a grave misgiving. H. M. S. Pinafore, of which he was impresario, was being widely pirated in the U. S. Without recourse to any international copyright law, he was determined to give Manhattan a production of H. M. S. Pinafore which would rout his unscrupulous competitors. Then he was to plunge into rehearsals for the premiere of The Pirates of Penzance, whose production was impeded at the start by the absentmindedness of pious Arthur Sullivan. In his haste to make a later boat, Composer Sullivan had left behind in his London flat...
That best-selling behemoth, Anthony Adverse (TIME. June 26), set the pace for what may well be a rout of historical novels in the U. S.. but that pace is a little too hot for Jonathan Bishop. In a story of such length and scope as Anthony Adverse the long rubbery arm of coincidence seemed only a little more elastic than natural; in Author Gorman's book it steals the show...
...Devil's in Love (Fox). If the French Government were as particular about such matters as Mussolini-who suggested to Paramount that A Farewell to Arms avoid showing the Italian Army in a rout-Hollywood would be compelled to take a different attitude toward the Foreign Legion. In the cinema this organization is shown to be a compromise between a sanatorium and a Wild West show. Its members when they are not busy forgetting unpleasant pasts are busy forgetting their duties as soldiers while they murder one another and misbehave with ladies...