Word: target
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significant that each of these earlier eras was a period of crisis in the history of mankind and of its progress. The Empire succeeded the Republic, Nationalism succeeded Feudalism: Democracy succeeded Absolutism. Out of a broom and an old hat the forces of reaction created a scarecrow for the target of their energy while the sweep of-history caught them from behind unawares...
...custom for boys in Merrie England to amuse themselves by whacking dead cats up and down he gutters. In the course of time some of the boys found that footing was better on the ice. Gradually the dead cat ceased to be used as a target, being replaced by a puck. However, even to this day the British persist in calling the puck "the cat", and "the kit." The general adoption of steel skates speed up the game, adding interest and thrills, and insuring lasting popularity for the sport...
...Rotary clubassembled last week to behold a marvel. Awe was in every heart as a man stood among them, all unafraid, and bade an assistant fire revolver bullets at him point blank. "Blam! Blam-blam!" The Rotarians could scarcely believe their eyes as the bullets quite obviously smote their target and still he stood unhurt. The Rotarians drew closer . . . "Blam-blam!" . . . and soon three of them were writhing with pain. Baker Walter C. Spitz, Banker John Telling and Reporter H. V. Streeter suffered cuts, scratches and contusions as chunks of lead, ricocheting from the entertainer's fancy waistcoat...
...sweatshirt period" only to sink into the toils of dilettantism. A Dartmouth undergraduate ably reputed Mr. Marks' aspersions and emphatically denied that students "walk about Hanover with tiger ljlies beween their teeth and green carnations pinned to their jackets. Once more the voluble Mr. Marks offers himself as a target for criticism...
...popular woman journalist in the world" has selected the most glowing bits of her daily stint to throw a beam into a naughty world;- has subtitled it: "Every-day Help for Everyday People." Each monograph is loaded with domestic BB shot, aimed at the human race, fired regardless of target. The chapter headings, "How a Husband Likes to be Treated," "Charm," "Have a Goal," "The Goat Family," "Learn a Trade, Girls," "Trial Divorce," "An Indoor Sport," "Should Women Tell," "Queer Things about Marriage," "Forget It," "The Secret of Happiness" are like newspaper headlines: they promise everything, tell nothing...