Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman Catholic. Many an inspired despatch has linked their names, praised her 'cello playing, his dexterity at the wheel of a roaring motor, her welfare work among Belgian babies, his dashing career as an Italian colonel. She met him first in Rome when she was only eleven, while spike-helmeted Germans were trampling her own Brussels. Last week he came with a suite of 31 Italian nobles to seek her hand. Only a bullet was needed to make completely romantic the engagement, officially proclaimed at Brussels, of Marie Jose, third child and only daughter of Belgium's beloved...
...Privy Councilors, but I guess you all know I'm still Jim!" Last week the clubbable Minister in Charge of Unemployment soon warmed up Canadians to a personal liking for his breezy, Welsh-Cockney wrays. In his first Canadian press interview, smart Jim Thomas sought to spike the charge that Mother Britain is not playing square with Daughter Canada...
Strong is Southern Pacific's position and large its earnings, yet in its position is one bearish item. Like other western roads, the Southern Pacific has watched with growing concern the increase of traffic through the Panama Canal. When transcontinental railroads were first built the driving of a golden spike was the final ceremonial of their completion. But the real gold spike was Cape Horn. Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast...
...would like to recall to his mind, when he must have seen them as many as three at a time, unless he was "seeing without eyes." This particular instance was about the time, in 1889, or the early '90s, when he was employed as a stenographer by Spike & Arnold, in Yakima, Wash., and one of his former employers, Sidney W. Arnold, was mixed in an election row with Sam. Vinson, Col. J. G. Boyle and G. W. Wilson, and in which, six-shooters were freely displayed along Yakima Avenues...
...this announcement the Lord Chamberlain did his best to spike the ever recurring rumor that the king will never resume his duties as ruler again, and that the Prince of Wrales is shortly to be proclaimed Regent_ In this case, of course, the Prince would preside at court, taking his place on the dais with the Queen. Despite the Lord Chamberlain, U. S. newsorgans reprinted the Regency story, insisted on it, and promised that the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin would proclaim the Regency of the Prince of Wales within a month...