Word: brandishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which she lived from hand to mouth ("from man to man." someone amends) Carole is now the wife of Benjamin-Z.-Fineberg-President-of-Superfine-Pictures-Incorporated, pronounced all as one word. She can cope with everything but the English language. When she says. "I won't brandish words with you." or "I must retire now and commute with myself for a moment," the hoarse voice of Actress George leaves nothing to be desired...
...Laski has paid particular attention to the English situation, but he maintains that the broad arguments he has put forward are equally applicable to other countries, and his reasoning is hard to refute. But whether or not "Democracy in Crisis" moves one to brandish the hammer and the sickle, it is a book which can find few contemporary rivals for the vigor of its prose and the shrewdness of its thrusts...
Each with a weapon in his hand (brandish stick...
...after copper had dropped to a new low of 9½?, a level not witnessed since 1895, it was disclosed that once again M. Pisart would visit the U. S. Again it is hoped that his arrival may mean an agreement to curtail African production, the weapon European consumers brandish over U. S. producers. But coppermen had little hope that 9½? would be the nadir. One smelter was. reported already to be shading the new price, and there was talk that the lowest price in recent history, 1894's 9?, may be seen again. No company could make...
Knock number one opened up vistas no less vast than Rudy's microphone for putting Harvard in the public eye. From purely altruistic motives a young man came out of the west and offered to brandish the baton for the University band. His name is Charles "Buddy" Rogers and his charming presence has endeared him in the hearts of movie fans the country over...