Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost of the depression in terms of human distress, its intellectual wreckage was almost as great; like those dump heaps of wrecked cars that lie out-side U. S. towns, U. S. brains contained large and unsightly piles of wrecked theories, junked plans, smashed hopes-a wheel off an old 1933 model Technocracy, an axle from Share the Wealth, a busted headlight from Production for Use, fragments of Marxism and the planned economy, half-a-dozen old Utopias that never ran. Here & there under the wreckage were old pieces of twisted slogans, moneychangers out of the temple, 114 days left...
Rejected Guest is at once a cracking, to-hell-with-it summary of Aldington's grievances and a fable which brings the wheel full circle, from war to war. Its hero is a "War baby," the by-blow of a high-minded 1914 romance between an aristocratic infantry subaltern (later killed) and the belle of a small industrial town. Brought up by his maternal grandparents after his shamed mother leaves town, little David finds out what he is when he is knocked down, kicked and called a bastard on his first day at school. When...
Next morning the couple drove (Duchess at the wheel) to Major Metcalfe's grey stone house in Ashdown Forest, about 40 miles south of London. In the car were two paperbound books: Winston Churchill's Step by Step, Dr. Ivan Lajos' Nazis Can't Win. Beaming like newlyweds, they received newspapermen. The Duchess was bright ("looked even better than when she left") in a gold dress, a gold and black checked coat, the Duke proper ("looked several years younger") in gray double-breasted flannels and a maroon-and-white...
...Treasury in time of Neutrality is a fiscal balance wheel, an enforcement agency of the first magnitude. Its Secretary Henry Morgenthau scurried home from vacation (in Scandinavia) by cutter to St. John's, Newfoundland, from there to Washington by plane, dashed to his office at 4 a.m. Within 48 hours he had called up a corps notable for a preponderance of 1) competent, stable businessmen, 2) economists who comb their hair...
...hand at the appointed hour. Another stranger appeared. "Tell Hoover to be at 28th Street on Fifth Avenue between 10:10 and 10:20," said he. Winchell went to a telephone and followed instructions. Then he got into his car and let Stranger No. 2 take the wheel. At 10:15 Stranger No. 2 pulled up at Madison Square and got out. "Just wait here," he said. Winchell waited. A moment later a third stranger arrived, opened the door and got in. He took off his dark glasses and threw them into the street. Winchell stepped...