Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What their convention missed in frivolity it made up in interest. Most of the leading U. S. economists were there and No. 1 topic was naturally the current depression. Against the full blast of such Governmental brasses in Philadelphia as Assistant Attorney General Robert Jackson (see p, 12), the murmurings of the economists in Atlantic City formed a quiet counterpoint...
Judge Mahoney's blast against Tammany Hall comes at a time when such attacks may be more practical effect then the crusades of colorful preachers and columnists. The movement to reform the Democratic organization of New York Country has the twofold advantage of a capable leader and a new environment in which Tammany is no longer the only organization catering to social needs...
Despite this unusually severe pontifical blast, two days after Christmas the German Ambassador to the Holy See telegraphed holiday greetings to the Holy Father...
When this blast had passed over, Mr. Widener was reported by his butler to be "very busily engaged," but it was not difficult for others to find the dates given for the paintings in the definitive catalog of Cézanne's works published nearly two years ago by Venturi. For the Barnes Bathers: 1900-05; for the Widener Bathers, 1898-1905. Collector Sam A. Lewisohn, who happened to be in Philadelphia, was saddened by the dispute. "Art is too beautiful to argue about," said he. Critic Sheldon Cheney opined that Les Grandes Baigneuses was not Cézanne...
...tomorrow) to mañana (tomorrow). What attacks there were on the Aragon front were all on the Leftist side. A brave but foolhardy attack by Catalan militiamen against a Rightist stronghold known as Hill, 1100 was beaten back after a loss of some 400 men caught in a blast of machine-gun fire on the barbed wire. Not even one Spanish square mile changed hands last week...