Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE?Chiefly Ina Claire. Her personal pyrotechnics more than suffice to disguise the fact that to divorce and remarry a husband in three acts is an imaginative wrench...
...taken place there, but it has done more harm than all the farmers and wage earners in the United States would ever create. The brains of the Republican Party have been spilled all over the West with the junior Senator of Iowa [Brookhart] throwing not only the monkey wrench but the whole machine shop into the machinery...
...will be greatly complicated by the action of the obscure 25-share partner in the business. At recent market prices, Dr. Klein's stock is worth about $100; yet his claim for a receivership involves assets valued at $120,000,000. This apparent step toward throwing a monkey-wrench into the Company's machinery should provoke a lively tilt in the Courts when the question of a permanent receivership is taken...
Conan Doyle lost a son in the war, and his communication with the dead appeals to millions of hearts, which, like his, have suffered the wrench of separation. If such communication can be established, it is indeed " far more important than international politics, Bolshevism, or the Ruhr," as he declared. Millions would try to get in touch with their dead, and the church would have to take account of this spiritual longing, or give place to a new church...
Little by little the dispute over the meaning of this entry will grow until it includes in one vast growl of argument all the people from the hereditary janitors down to the sovereigns of the wrench and the nut. When it reaches the last named arbiters of human progress, the machinery, being neglected, will jam, whereupon the lights will go out. The growl of argument will then change to one great roar of anger...