Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle must move from the Governor's private chambers to an open forum of free debate. Public opinion should smash LaFollette's attempt to make puppets of the University Regents and to subject the State university to his personal predilections. If an outstanding educator like Glenn Frank is toppled from his post, the cause of academic freedom will receive a stunning blow...
...dadaists, later to be one of the most important surrealists, was a young German painter named Max Ernst. Cologne still remembers the dada exhibition organized by Max Ernst and Hans Arp in 1920. The entrance to the exhibition was through a public lavatory. Gallery-goers were given hatchets to smash any pictures they did not approve and a young girl in a white communion dress stood on a platform reciting obscene poems...
Japanese Army circles, close to Premier Koki Hirota and firmly antiCommunist, cracked the whip last week and civilian leaders of both great Japanese political parties expressed warm approval of the Hitler Crusade. Ready were Army zealots to smash any Japanese of consequence who disagreed, but they did not bother last week about certain notes of caution sounded by large Tokyo newspapers with Big Business connections. Of these Nichi Nichi, the boldest, said: "We heartily welcome friendship with Germany, but we feel as though we are running after a fly with a hatchet if the agreement is aimed only against...
...Stars Remain Actor Webb, with infinite boredom, takes part in a great deal of vague talk about a hypothetical New York State political situation, in which the forces of Cynthia Hope's (Helen Gahagan's) grandfather, a die-hard Republican out to smash a pack of radical cubs at the polls, are lined up against the faction of Frederick Holden (Ben Smith), who thinks grandfather and his allies are sociological contemporaries of the brontosaurus. A lazy neutral, Actor Webb twits grandfather's associates by inquiring if they think it quite sanitary, not to change their convictions more...
Next thing Greeks knew their Dictator gave out a long statement in which for the first time he announced that he will "never" hold elections for another Greek parliament. General Metaxas said' last week that the Socialist & Communist trade unions which he has done his best to smash "will no longer be tolerated" and that the State will set up a paternal form of worker organization...