Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus behave was to be expected, but at the fortress in which President Washington Luis sat officers, too, lost their heads. They saw the Hamburg-South American liner Baden sail out of Rio bound for Buenos Aires, her decks teeming with Spanish emigrants. To stop her they fired three blank signal shots. The Baden steamed on. The fourth shot was a shrapnel shell. Bursting on deck it killed 23 Spanish emigrants, four German sailors, wounded forty others...
...procedure is as follows: when a hat man enters the room of a prospective candidate, he will say "Mr. Blank, do you accept a hold-off from K. K. K." If Mr. Blank shakes hands, he is pledged to this fraternity. If he does not shake hands, it is a turndown, and the hat man must leave at once...
They were a gallant crew, that old gang of childhood. Nine-year old fancy toyed willingly with the pathos of Old Mother Hubbard and the little dog gazing ever so wistfully at a blank and bare chipboard. Swarms of children, with the readers among them, often gamboled gleefully over a battered shoe very much down at the heel, while the Old Woman Who Lived There watched their prancings in despair. And Mother Goose, fittingly astride a whiskery broomstick reigned proudly over her host of youthful subjects...
...popularized the anthem could be crooned through the anthem could be crooned through the medium of the microphone and loudspeaker straight into the hearts of his adoring public. However the department foolishly overlooked this chance of placing Harvard's name before millions to whom it would otherwise have registered blank except perhaps for a mental picture of a well-known five cent cigar. Anyone must grant that the image of a collegiate matinee idol is far more beneficial to the man in the street than a mental picture of a five cent cigar...
...enough practice in retreating," ordered the Blues to show their practice in retreat. At week's end maneuvers ended in a perfect holocaust of fire. Soldiers, determined not to carry any heavy ammunition back to barracks blazed away with enthusiasm. One machine gun crew ripped off belts of blank cartridges with such gusto that it was only after being surrounded by a squad of "enemy" soldiers and rebuked by several staff officers that they would take off their steel helmets, play dead...