Word: squelch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miramar. Calif. Part of the Scripps plain-people complex was plain clothes. Roy Howard has always liked fancy clothes and at this first meeting with his employer, he was at his fanciest. The great man scowled down at his midget caller and in their ensuing conversation sought to squelch him thoroughly and forever. After the little fashion-plate had carried his point and walked off, Old Man Scripps is supposed to have uttered the famed encomium, the truth of which other great men have learned about Roy Howard: "That young man boots." will never get indigestion licking my Aftermath...
...wrote to squelch, did squelch, the publicly expressed resentment at her practice of remaining inaccessible year after year, in mourning for her beloved husband, Prince Consort Albert. Although published "anonymously," the letter was discreetly made known as from the Royal hand. When a pile of letters from people he did not know was brought to the late, great Georges Clemenceau he usually threw away the signed ones, read the anonymous "because letters people write but do not sign always contain what is really in their hearts...
...dozen airplanes were shipped to the support of the Brazilian federals. Statesman Stimson explained that, though this was the first time the U. S. had applied an embargo to a South American revolution, it was no precedent because the same method had been used before under international law to squelch rebellions in Mexico, Central America, China...
Great was the confusion aboard the George Washington before sailing. Mrs. Stimson was badly jostled by news cameramen seeking her husband. A delegation of New Jersey politicians came aboard. It was all Ambassador Morrow could do to squelch their demonstration in behalf of his candidacy for the Senate. Statesman Stimson, in a final interview, was drowned out by the rattle of a deck winch...