Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sided contest, which was slowed up considerably by adverse weather conditions, the Belmont Hall football team downed the Adams eleven by the score of 15-0. At no stage in the game did the Forty-Niners seriously threaten to score. E. F. Emerson opened the scoring in the first period, with a long run for a touchdown. In the fourth period Chase intercepted a forward pass to tally, after cluding practically the entire Harvard team. Belmont scored their final two points when W. T. Piper '34, was tackled behind the Adams goal line...
Soon several rich Japanese withdrew their deposits from National City's Osaka branch, mobs milled around its doors. branch officials received threatening letters and placards proclaimed: "Patriotic Japanese employes of this spying Ameri can bank must walk out in a body!" The new U. S. Ambassador to Japan is alert, athletic, slightly deaf Josef Clark Grew, kinsman of John Pierpont Morgan, whose last post was Turkey. Mr. Grew stood for no nonsense in Tokyo. Laconically he cabled to the State Department : "The recent affair of the Osaka branch of the National City Bank of New York which is subjected...
...James Cagney does not know much about boxing and no one in the studio bothered to teach him. But that in no way diminishes the value of this picture. Cagney always does his best sparring against his leading ladies and in this picture he has two of them to threaten. He hits neither and only kicks the one who deserves it (Virginia Bruce). She is a lady of patrician manners and gutter instincts, attracted to Cagney by his potato nose and inflated ear. When he has these improved by a plastic surgeon, she likes him less; on the night...
...apparently expected that the cupidity of these towns and sections will demand that their Congressmen and Senators vote for this bill or threaten to penalize them if they fail to join in this squandering of money. . . . Our nation was not founded on the pork barrel, and it has not become great by political logrolling...
...Other nations try to provoke us," cried War Minister Voroshilov in the course of a 20-minute speech, "but our nerves are strong enough! We will not be foiled by these provocations. The Red Army will never threaten anyone but will continue to be where it should be when necessary...