Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed that this dagger thrust, coming just before the meeting summoned by Mr. Baldwin, meant his demise as Leader. But even as Baron Beaverbrook savored his triumph, Brewer Gretton suddenly found himself in bad odor. He found that a great many Conservatives considered the manifesto "not cricket" (dirty politics). Within a few hours Brewer Gretton and four other Conservatives whose names were supposed to be on the manifesto informed Leader Baldwin that they had not signed...
...between expeditions to Nautch girls and in search of a guru (teacher) he played polo, stuck "pigs" (wild boars). He gives a vivid description of a polo match, a no less vivid account of what it feels like to chase a boar, try to pin it with a lance-thrust. Says he: "In the open, the odds are against the boar, but in blind cover [where the hunters follow on foot, armed only with a lance] he has more than an equal chance against a man. That is one of the purifying risks of pig sticking...
Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago thrust his heavy hands last week into the tomb of the late Senator Joseph Medill McCormick of Illinois in search of old political bones with which to frighten the city's 75,000 Negro voters out of their Republican wits. What he ghoulishly drew forth was the wraith of Chicago's great race riot of July 27-Aug. 2, 1919. This he hurled anonymously at the Senator's widow, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, now the Republican nominee for the Senate against Democrat James Hamilton Lewis...
...first persons of importance that were met were the Lovely Sisters, Nelda and Violet respectively. Arriving at a door market "Quiet, Stars in meditation" whence issued a highly non-meditative bit of harmony, the interviewer was suddenly thrust into a small room containing numbers one and two of the fifty six with no further warning than "Get Decent" on the part of the Stage Manager. "Ooooo," sagaciously remarked the fair Miss Nelda, and this interviewer retreated hastily, having been warned by that expressive exclamation that the young lady behind the screen (Miss Violet) was not to be seen...
...Lovely sisters are very pleasing to look at, and, as a matter of fact they are considered to be the most beautiful girls of the troup. There really is no question about that. Why they ever had the name of the Lovely sisters thrust upon them is indeed hard to determine. Will Mahoney's best gag comes towards the end of the show when he dances on a xylophone and plays a tune while doing so. He is, however, entertaining at all times...