Word: truncheoning
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Through the Defender's good name, Editor "Pagnanelli" met fascist James True, who had taken out a patent for his "kike-killer"-a truncheon that came in two sizes, one for use by ladies...
...human intelligence and that steeper virtue, integrity, there is Hitler's immortal remark: "The greatest of spirits can be liquidated if its bearer is beaten to death with a rubber truncheon...
...Galveston, Tex., where 2,000 workmen at Todd Galveston Dry Docks are on strike, the draft boards swung an anti-strike truncheon that had never been swung so vigorously before. Informed that more than 20 men of draft age, deferred because of their jobs in an essential industry, had walked out, the boards ordered them to report to draft headquarters. Purpose: to give them physical examinations, reclassify them for service in the Army, where striking is just not done...
...closed in behind the procession, sang hymns and prayed, as it moved through the streets to the Church of St. Sava. Reaching the centre of Belgrade, they faced double ranks of gendarmes, who charged on the congregation. Women fled in terror. The police cracked down with rifle butt and truncheon on the chanting priests. Hoary old Bishop Simeon of Shabatz lifted a heavy silver cross to protect himself and down came a rifle butt, smashing the cross against his head. Blood pouring from his face, he was carried off suffering a brain concussion. Sacred emblems were snatched from priests...
Critics found many a flaw last week in It Can't Happen Here as a piece of dramaturgy. Despite its faults, it is a serviceable and occasionally terrifying presentation of Sinclair Lewis' thesis that the rubber-truncheon and concentration-camp sort of Fascism is a creeping disease and not a sudden explosion. Called to a Manhattan stage for a speech after last week's first performance, Author Lewis appeared, looked at his watch, barked: "I've been making a speech since seven minutes to nine," and vanished into the wings...