Word: truncheoning
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...bound, well made editions of the works of classic Russian and American authors selling at prices obviously below the cost of manufacture. Fascist authorities scented propaganda. Last week, armed with orders from the Italian Department of the Interior (Italy's Department of the Interior: Benito Mussolini), black-shirted, truncheon-swinging Fascist Militia raided bookstores, bundled all editions of the works of Gorky, Gogol, Dostoievski, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, and even Jack London into vans. Official reason: "Low-priced editions of these works have injured the sale of books by modern Italian writers. They often contain seed for Communist propaganda...
...Baptist Meeting House, midway down the Hill, they will doff mortar boards and one of the men will relinquish the truncheon of his authority. The other will catch it up. And so will pass a famed figure in U. S. educational circles ? Doctor William Herbert Perry Faunce, president of Brown University...