Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Often in their attempts to exonerate themselves they defame the character of others. A few, not intimately connected with the struggle, merely smash about at random with the pure joy of the iconoclast. Such a man is Prince von Bulow. In his recently published memoirs he violently attacks a man upon no greater provocation than that he told the truth. In the admission of Bethmann Hollweg that the German invasion of Belgium was a "breach of international law" Bulow finds a stunning tactical error. This may be true, but the Prince goes on to say that Bethmann should have...
...perfect it for them. Swift thereafter was the rise of W. Duke Sons & Co. and the formation in 1890 of American Tobacco Co. with a capital of $25,000,000.? In a ruthless, buccaneering business era, Buck Duke assembled his great combine with all the gusto and smash of the northern tycoons who were putting together railroads, steel mills, oil wells, can factories. He fought historic battles in what was one of the most fiercely throat-cutting U. S. businesses. Then, in 1912, when he was ordered to unscramble his trust, he did so with superb aplomb...
...beyond the drunkenest tabloid editor's most gaudy dream (TIME, April 4, 1927). The Manhattan public was somehow puzzled. How came a curly-haired, weak-mouthed little vendor of female garments, in the vegetable suburbs of a great city, to such a pitch of excitement that he could smash a man's skull with a sash-weight? The tabloids, who followed Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder until (and after) the current shot through them in Sing Sing's death house, explained the case as best they could: Ruth was "a dangerous woman," highly sexed, adamant...
Petter's Bombshell. With a single blow of his hard Canadian fist, Baron Beaverbrook shattered the idyllic calm of poor Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. Sir Ernest was told that he could either get up on his feet and fight the presslords' battle against Stanley Baldwin or they would smash his candidacy by putting up a third Conservative candidate. What could he do but accept the aid of two such very rich...
...such statement, had no interest in politics. Nationalist papers roared that this was "unwarranted meddling with Germany's internal affairs." Hitlerites, convinced that Chaplin is a Jew, marched up & down, roaring defiance, before the swanky Hotel Adlon where he was staying. A crowd of Communists, more practical, threatened to smash all the windows in the Adlon unless the great Chaplin received a delegation...