Word: blasted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...capably in fact that Dresden, Vienna, and Paris combined have nothing in the way of feminity to rival her. She portrays dramatically--a la bare back and silver wig--a woman whose ruined life was brought about through her husband's indifference. A railroad wreck, gambling dens in full blast, interiors of choice Parisian restaurants, and sorrowful close-ups of Pola drenching her little girl with a shower of joyful tears at the end, make the picture very enjoyable for students leading suppressed lives and rebelling against the monotonous humdrum of Cambridge...
...Awarded annually from a fund left by the late Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-98), inventor of the Bessemer blast furnace for converting pig iron into steel...
...Pittston, Pa., where hard coal comes out of the earth, a Hudson closed car turned into hard-boiled Railroad Street, closely followed by a Peerless sedan. Crowding the Hudson to the gutter, the Peerless paused to belch a noisy blast of powder and lead slugs from several pump guns. Then it vanished toward the neighboring hamlet of Moosic, where it was abandoned, the occupants slipping away into a dense forest. In the shattered Hudson on Railroad Street lay Alexander Campbell, labor leader, and his friend Peter Reilly, both of them horribly dead...
...expected counter blast from Signor Mussolini was anticipated last week by the authoritative Giornale D'ltalia of Rome which described Chancellor Seipel's speech as "insincere," and asserted that the Higher Adige is governed "with the same regime and the same application of rights and duties as those prevailing in all other Italian provinces...
Lord Askwith of St. Ives (1st Baron), tin magnate in the Straits Settlements mines, blew a double-stopped yet harmless blast of exaggeration at the Royal Colonial Institute held in London last week...