Word: brandishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore Roosevelt, who grew up to brandish a big stick, got an early start as a collegiate boxer. An exhibit of photographs, letters and other TRivia that opened last week in Manhattan furnished some fierce pictorial proof: a bewhiskered Teddy in his teens in fighting rig (with scowl to match) as a Harvard undergraduate...
...would dispute Harry Truman's descent from Andrew Jackson, the party regular. But angry Southern Democrats, smarting under the President's civil rights program, believed that he no longer had any right to claim Thomas Jefferson. In Mississippi last week, 5,000 local rebels gathered to brandish the Confederate flag and issue a secession call for all "true, white Jeffersonian Democrats...
There used to be so many burlesque houses on Manhattan's garish 42nd Street that it was virtually one big runway. A decade ago Mayor LaGuardia, who loved to brandish a besom, swept burlesque and all its trimmings right out of New York City; 42nd Street west of Broadway was left with a flea circus and a bereft feeling. Not until The Hat and his pecksniffian License Commissioner Paul Moss left office did there seem any chance to bring the strippers and the privy jokesters back to the boards...
With that proposition the U.S. State Department was in agreement. The U.S. wanted to devote more attention and more strength to the Battle of the Atlantic. It also happened that, with the oil weapon to brandish, the State Department thought it could get Japan to back down to some extent. In any case valuable time -time that was pro-Russian and anti-Hitler-would be gained by negotiations, which would certainly be delicate, undoubtedly be long. Accordingly, talks were begun both in Washington, where Admiral Nomura and Cordell Hull met several times "outside the State Department," and in Tokyo, where...
...DELIVER AMERICA FROM THIS MODERN DON QUIXOTE. ROOSEVELT THE SECOND UPSETS ANOTHER CHERISHED AMERICAN TRADITION. ABANDONING THE SLOGAN, SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK, MADE POPULAR BY TEDDY THE GREAT, OUR REBEL-ROUSING ROOSEVELT MAKES IT READ "BRAY LOUDLY AND BRANDISH A FEATHER DUSTER...