Word: blew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planes, easily identified as Japanese by the red balls on their wings, appeared and dropped their first bomb. A direct hit just forward of the bridge put the Panay's only antiaircraft gun out of action, slammed Lieut. Commander Hughes against the bridge wheel, broke his leg, and blew all the clothes off Lieutenant D. H. Biwerse of Sheboygan, Wis. but left him uninjured...
...manager of the Jewish Daily Forward and belongs to the new American Labor Party (TIME, Nov. 15), but three of his 51 years were spent in Tsarist prisons. Another Fusion minority member elected by the American Labor Party in The Bronx was bull-necked Michael J. Quill, who once blew up Black-&-Tan lorries in Ireland and still carries a bullet in his left hip. Having worked in the U. S. since 1926, making change in subway stations and selling Catholic art to Pennsylvania miners, Mike Quill three and a half years ago organized the Transport Workers of America...
...lecturer on literature), and as much of an individualist as an artist. Because the life tenure of an Episcopalian rector can be terminated only for grave cause, and because he was careful never to set down any of his indiscreet utterances in print, he weathered all the storms that blew around his bushy locks...
...Poet Amy Lowell, Actresses Helen Menken and Eva Le Gallienne, Astrologist Evangeline Adams, to speak at afternoon or evening services. But when, on St. Nicholas Eve in 1923, Dr. Guthrie had six bare-legged but amply-clad Barnard College girls perform eurythmic dances in St. Marks, austere Bishop Manning blew up. He cut off St. Marks from his episcopal visiting list, so that its people had to go elsewhere to be confirmed-until 1932, when the church discontinued its dances for lack of money...
...Jeeter Lester, found he could begin to pay the expenses of his Old Lyme, Conn, estate. After the first year's run, profits were $84,000. When Tobacco Road's second birthday rolled around, Producers Sam Grisman, Jack Kirkland and Anthony Brown threw caution to the winds, blew in $10.50 for new costumes for all the players...