Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aghast to see his Queen. Her Majesty had just entered with Princess Mary in search of gifts for a charity bazaar. The carpenter, anxious to show respect, tried to doff his cap, but only succeeded in knocking it off. Grabbing for it, he dropped his hammer. The hammer struck his saw, lying on a board, and all crashed to the floor with a great clatter of ironmongery. In an agony of mortification, the carpenter fell off the counter himself...
...Minister's words and his fine, lionesque presence had their effect. The crowd quieted. After pulling the cord, M. Herriot departed amid an escort of police. But before the cavalcade was out of sight some 20 youths raggedly clad surrounded the statue, and one with a sledge hammer knocked off the nose and ears and smashed the face...
...such moments policemen should be calm. One of the Pons policemen, said to be a relative of Emile Combes, lost his head utterly. Drawing his revolver he trained it on the clerical iconoclast with the sledge hammer, pulled trigger, shot the youth dead. Cooler policemen rounded up the tattered mob men and then discovered to their horror that they were disguised Royalist followers of famed Leon Daudet, son of the great novelist Alphonse Daudet, stubborn and wrongheaded champion of Roman Catholicism and the Royal House of France. The Pope has excommunicated Leon Daudet and his followers (TIME, April 9). Their...
German citizens who expected to see the mace of Government fall upon the truculent employers like the vengeful hammer of Thor were surprised and perturbed to see that nothing of the sort happened last week. Many a legal expert opined that the State is not empowered to enforce such awards, and gratuitously added that the Ministry of Labor has put through many such in the past chiefly by might of bluff...
...caught a fish there once. Recently, the boat sprang a leak and squatted down in five feet of water. Also the club had $23,000 in debts which it was unable to meet, so it squatted down into defunction. Last week the furnishings of the club went under the hammer of Auctioneer Samuel L. Winternitz.* A picture of "Our Mayor in Action" brought an original bid of 10¢, finally went for $2 to Charles H. Weber, Democratic member of the state legislature, who also bought a stuffed fox. The auction netted a total...