Word: smiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outsider could thus assail even Huey Pierce Long in his Senatorial capacity without causing the entire Senate to rise in wrath and smite the attacker down. Senator Tydings framed his reply in John Nance Garner's office, with the Vice President and Majority Leader Robinson standing by, many a Senator dropping in to offer aid and encouragement. Excerpts...
This letter did not smite the world with quite the astonishment that Secretary Early had expected. But the letter and the statement on the Labor Bill together emphasized a number of points in New Deal policy-points which the Press had been gradually surmising...
...upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. . . . For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. . . . And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. . . . and it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote...
Will the men of Harvard be blind to the logic of Professor Copeland and the embattled goodies? Let them arise in their strength and smite the new-fangled and the plebeian. Let the Kirkland House matron query in a still, small voice. "What, O Harvard, is my rightful name?" And let a chorus of ten thousand throats cry: "GOODY...
...decided that its purpler passages are "emetic," rather than "aphrodisiac"; that the net effect of its 768 big pages is "a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary on the inner lives of men and women." But even granting Ulysses a bill of moral health an intelligent adult may well smite his brow...