Word: wield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able through Federal detectives and policemen to reach into every hamlet, and to every ward, and to every purlieu of a large city, and use the leverage of an intermittently lax and strict enforcement of the law against would-be dealers in liquor and their patrons, he will wield a sinister power, prospect of which should make anxious the friends of free constitutional government...
...week, to Star Reporter Peter Vischer of Exhibitors Herald & Moving Picture World. Father of many a cooperative, bitter enemy of Henry Ford, Mr. Sapiro's latest venture has been the Independent Motion Pictures Exhibitors Association, of which the purpose is to permit the owners of small cinemansions to wield a more potent influence upon the large and exclusive companies which make cinemas...
Stealthily, last week, and then boldly Citizen Morren of Louvain proceeded to wield a stonemason's pick on the balustrade for 45 minutes, destroying 160 small columns...
Cried chief and successful Filibusterer the Rt. Hon. Thomas L. Church of Toronto : "We need a Mussolini in Canada to wield a big stick over our big corporations! . . . The additional capital stock which the Bell Company seeks power to issue would never be utilized for extensions or added service to the public, but would be gobbled up in a huge melon split. . . . Outrageous...
...Homeric daring. The fifth choice will probably be one who represents per-eminently the elusive spirit of America. There will doubtless be many suggestions, but the choice might well narrow down to the name of Alfred E. Smith and Andrew J. Volstead as the two men who at present wield the most influence on the spirits of the nation...