Word: brandishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night the Cardinal could hear the mob gathering again in St. Stephen's Square. He did not look out to see their fireworks or watch them brandish miniature gibbets. But he heard their shouts: "Innitzer to Dachau...
...Crawford Burton, who is a stockbroker when not riding, showed up next day at the New York Stock Exchange, he found that its notoriously prurient members had so chosen to interpret his picture. When Mr. Burton entered the Exchange smoking room, he said that scores of brokers began to brandish copies of Collier's (one of the first publications to receive and print the advertisement) and set up such a gibbering that he could execute no orders, went home to seclude himself for days...
...Both the Norwegian whalers' unions and the Norwegian Government maintained that British soapmakers, who own many of the whaling ships, want to kill whales at such a rate that the great mammals would soon be exterminated. London papers last week described the British Government as having decided to brandish a "big stick" and as having informed the Norwegian Government that the present "closed whaling season" (December to March) will be disregarded by British firms which will send their ships south "at once...
Strategy of the leaders was to approach His Majesty's Department of Mines last week and brandish the proletariat's authorization gently with the intimation that "Nobody wants to strike...
...This caused the Mayor to brandish copies of official communications handed by U. S. Ambassador Dodd to the Hitler Government. In these there was an undeniable though vague insinuation that if Germany has been discriminating against U. S. holders of the Fatherland's bonds or so discriminates in future the Roosevelt Administration will be vexed...