Word: blew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asturias striking coal miners cut down trees to block roads, fired their villages, and then fled to the hills where squadrons of bombing planes blew the ground out from under them...
Rising sand-clouds from the West blew relentlessly across the stone-edge plain. Formations of loess dropped in dismaying array on huddled figures before shivering animals. Superstitious yellow-men wrapped themselves deeper into fur-lined garments and earth-colored birds took safety in fight toward the East. Sky and land fused together in one great maelstrom of motion. Here was storm over Asia...
...Mayor of the City of London. "The City's" gloomy Guildhall was strewn with sweet herbs for the occasion. The Aldermen staggered under the tricornered hats and massive gold & black robes of their nominal office as Liverymen of the ancient London trade guilds. Each carried a nosegay. Trumpets blew. The Liverymen shouted their oft-rehearsed parts. Aldermen who had already been Lord Mayor were told to leave the Common Hall. Then the remaining members of the Grocers. Fishmongers, Butchers, Bakers, Waxchandlers, Armourers & Brasiers, Stationers, Bowyers, Coachmakers, and Glovers Guilds elected Sir Stephen of the Fanmakers' Company Lord Mayor...
...Roanoke, Va., Jesse T. Meadows scrambled up a small tree to shoot a squirrel. On a smooth limb he slipped, fell out of the tree, flung his wrist against the blade of an ax, which sliced off his hand, discharged his gun, which blew off his foot...
...Chicago, Rosita Royce danced one night in the Streets of Paris without her fig leaf, explained to a judge: "The wind blew it off." Sally Rand danced onto a theatre stage holding a big rubber "bubble" between herself and the audience. The bubble burst. To Mary Belle Spencer, crusading attorney who had Sally arrested, newshawks showed a picture of her half-naked 14-year-old daughter holding a trophy won in a bathing beauty contest. Said Mary Belle Spencer...