Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merchant Rappaport proved to be a glib gentleman who denied any knowledge of a counterfeiting scheme to loot Monte Carlo. Though he carried genuine casino chips in his pocket, he swore he was the guiltless tool of an unnamed citizen...
Although numerous U. S. correspondents sent out signed despatches quoting the Metropolitan, described minutely the whole scene, still next day in Riga, Latvia, the local Orthodox Archbishop announced the impossibility that Sergius could have uttered his words, and the Morning Post told Londoners that Sergius is a "tool" of the Soviets. Little impression was made in either Britain or the U. S. by the publication cf a statement signed by Chief Rabbi Henachem Gluskin of Minsk, though no one accused him of being a "tool," for all Jewry knows his stalwart saintliness...
...John Marshall has a nominee for this highest judicial post been more severely flayed in the Senate than Mr. Hughes. Taney was opposed for just the reverse of the reasons advanced against Mr. Hughes. He was a Southern Democrat whom such Whigs as Clay and Webster denounced as "a tool of Jacksonian power"-just as Mr. Hughes was denounced as "a tool of Hooverian power." Progressives charged Mr. Hughes with favoring monopoly; Whigs excoriated Taney for opposing it. Both were conceded to be excellent lawyers. The Senate confirmed Taney as Chief Justice March 15, 1836, by a vote...
...conceived of it. He lived in a world governed by the axioms which he had tried vainly to teach to his small boys. Consequently when he fell in love with the mistress of the politician Castel-Benac, she easily persuaded M. Topaze to become that scoundrel's unconscious tool. And even when M. Topaze learned the truth and spent his days quivering with remorse and fright, and disguising his voice over the telephone, he still kept his position out of his love for the siren...
...confidant and adviser of William of Orange, the tool of Barley, Queen Anne's prime minister, and the publicity agent of George I, DeFoe occupies a position in English history and politics, less important, but no less interesting than his place in letters...