Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representatives must realize, is that the armament trade is an international problem, so complicated by technical, political, and moral issues as to render the likelihood of practical legislation virtually nil. The armament trade is bound to flourish so long as the world is torn by the political animosities that threaten it today...
...spending of billions of dollars disbursed to the states for relief purposes. Many impartial economic observers claim that the national credit is already stretched to the danger point and that any future huge appropriation--such as the $4,800,000,000 relief bill now before the Senate--will seriously threaten our financial stability and will impede rather than facilitate recovery...
...room to offer him the money she won, but he misunderstands. Months later after Raft has discovered and made his fortune out of the rumba, a process that involves a good deal of exciting music and exposed brunette flesh, the story wriggles up to a climax in which gangsters threaten to shoot Raft during the opening dance of his new show. His partner wilts. Miss Lombard steps from her box and joins him in the rumba. Somehow this frail anecdote is definitely pleasant, brightened with the tropical costumes and faces and Marion Gering's vivid direction...
...galaxy of decorative generals, the Bessboroughs standing on a dais received the curtsies of elite Canadian females as do Their Majesties in Buckingham Palace. In nine other Canadian Provinces subjects similarly kowtow to the local Lieutenant Governor. Only in Ontario does brash, newdealing Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn threaten: "Next time we are going to stop aping all this nonsense!" Next time for "Mitch" will come on Feb. 13 when he may or may not dare to have someone other than Lieutenant Governor Colonel the Honorable Herbert A. Bruce open the Provincial Legislature...
...preliminary encounter, the Crimson cubs were soundly drubbed by the baby Elephants to the tune of 26 to 13. Harvard was behind from the start, and was never able to threaten...