Word: blew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wind that blew dismayed this crew or troubled their artist minds; they fired salutes beneath Capital's boots, with every expectation of booming gales of applause from "workers." The cover design was a brawny miner with an idea bursting from his skull. Scott Nearing, famed sociologist, just back from a trip to Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov, Tiflis and other centres of culture, limned a deplorable contrast between the mammon-ridden U.S. and progressive Soviet Russia. Robert W. Dunn, young Yale Communist, described with devastating irony the activities of a Massachusetts labor-spy. "Bad Bishop" William Montgomery Brown contributed his revolutionary...
...teams when the starting whistle blew were lined up as follows: HARVARD OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE Clifford g. g. Borden Watson pt. pt. Ogilvie Gamache c.pt. c.pt. Greenwood Linn f.d. f.d. Brown Reed s.d. s.d. Sholl Coombs t.d. t.d. Harker Hatch c. c. Good Sayles t.a. ta. Fullbright Babson s.a. s.a. Marshall Simpson f.a. f.a. Adshed Lane o.h. o.h. Melland Gillies i.h. i.h. Fornby...
...daughter-and their many relations. It is the kind of book in which plot matters not a whit and conversation, behavior and obiter dicta are everything. The first is stilted, the second unreal-having breakfasted, these upper-class Brit-ishers "wiped their lips and put down their napkins and blew their noses"-and the third consists largely in sudden aimless excursions into geology, botany, anthropology, astronomy...
...sudden to happen inside her." After she had thus perceived the hollowness of mundane life and renounced it, her debut in her new role was dramatic. Suddenly appearing in a railway yard at lunch hour, she began to preach to the workers. One o'clock came but no whistle blew. Uldine's words had held all the workers enthralled. Out stalked an angry boss to discover what the trouble was, but he, too, felt Uldine's spell and stayed to listen. Thus did wisdom encounter and overcome the forces of Mammon...
...Maine blew up, as everyone knows...