Word: wallop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncrowned tsar of Monte Carlo, sleek, hard Casino Director René Léon, far more potent than fusty old Prince Louis of Monaco, was under withering fire last week from Monégasques who loudly demanded his scalp. On top of the wallop Depression gave Monte Carlo had come a second staggering blow, the decision of the French Government in 1933 to legalize roulette, hitherto a Monte monopoly, in France. Groggy from these two crushers, Director Léon faced last week the minute principality's irate National Assembly. Shouted a deputy who was promptly seconded by Mayor...
They came with their shillelaghs-florid-faced Thomas Francis McMahon swinging the threat of a cotton textile strike and pug-nosed Michael Francis Tighe brandishing what looked dangerously like a steel strike. If either or both landed a good stiff wallop with their clubs. General Johnson's job-making program with NRA would be sent sprawling in the dust of more labor troubles...
Secretary Hull was bound to oppose Dr. Puig's moratorium, since it would deal a terrific wallop to U. S. holders of Latin-American bonds. On the other hand he dared not cast the Roosevelt Administration in the role of championing the forgotten bondholder. What Secretary Hull said, speaking without notes in a supposedly secret committee meeting, so enraged Dr. Puig that he roundly flayed the U. S. Delegation as advocates of "secret diplomacy" and praised the "honest press" of Montevideo for obtaining by pipeline methods the text of the U. S. Secretary of State's remarks...
...village hadn't expected. But take the run of them and they're pretty good, salty folks." Of novel-writing: "Last summer I went at it scientifically. I got in good physical condition. I'd take a cold bath, wear only shorts, have a cold drink handy. I'd wallop the typewriter...
James Henry Scullin, the hard-jawed Laborite who became Prime Minister of Australia on a platform pledging protection for the Dominion's "infant industries," fulfilled his pledge last week with a wallop staggering to foreign (including English) exporters...