Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Bessie Coleman, 26, "the world's only Negro aviatrix"; at Jacksonville, Fla., after a half-mile nose dive made by her plane when its controls became jammed by a monkey wrench...
Throughout newspaperdom the elated cried: "No, indeed; Mr. Houghton did not throw stones! Pat was right! Houghton threw a monkey wrench...
...British move at Geneva appears to have been designed to bring all the Court members together for a general agreement, so that neither one nor another might throw a monkey wrench into the machinery for U. S. adherence...
...game of fast-and-loose with Russia and Britain. He signs the Lausanne pact, and as readily a treaty of amity with Russia. He drives the unbeliever into Greece. He toys with the wily Briton at Chanak, Mosul, and in Irak. He has the very temerity to throw a wrench into the World Court, a deed pardonable only in provincials from Idaho and Wisconsin...
...makes a telling point in his parting shot, as he deftly turns the argument toward the independence and importance of the literature of his own country: "The plain fact is that the Republic has cut the painter and has begun to go it alone. There is, no doubt, a wrench. It is, I suppose, painful. But I don't know anything that is to be done about...