Word: blew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firmly off (TIME, June 25). Last week when Their Majesties' favorite granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth ("Baby Betty") appeared at her first Buckingham Palace garden party she dropped her curtsy on grass burned practically brown. While the King kissed Betty and stood chatting with her, impish gusts of wind suddenly blew hot among the 9,000 garden party guests. Too late scores of women grabbed for wide-brimmed hats which had left their heads and skimmed away over the lawns. As they scrambled to retrieve them, Princess Betty clapped her hands and asked: "Is it always like this...
...plum of making him Ambassador at Rome. The stark, one-sentence radio announcement was seemingly intended to convey to Austria that a Nazi Putsch headed by "King Anton" had succeeded. When a radio actor found a revolver and started shooting, a cool Nazi hurled a hand grenade, blew him to blazes. Meanwhile back at the Ballhaus ten pistol-brandishing Nazis had burst down the last white door and caught Chancellor Dollfuss at bay on the threshold of the historic Yellow Room in which met the Congress of Vienna...
...dawdling hands of its Parliamentary Committee. Convinced that le peuple blame chiefly the Committee and not himself, Gastounet left the microphone to begin his summer vacation. Next evening as he was about to catch the sleeping car for his wife's estate near Toulouse the Stavisky scandal blew up in Committee and excited Cabinet Ministers came tearing to the station...
...characteristic nervous waggle of his British confreres, drives a red Mercedes roadster, is reputed to be the best dressed professional golfer in Europe. He brought with him to Sandwich last week his private trainer & masseur. On the third round Cotton got a creditable 72. On the fourth he blew up completely with a 79, but by that time he was so far ahead it made no difference. His 283 tied Gene Sarazen's record Open total...
Cuba. Provisional President Carlos Mendieta finished his speech at a naval officers' luncheon at Tiscornia Camp across the bay from Havana and sat down. BAM! A huge hole opened in the wall under a stairway, blew a great wind across the room. A seaman and a Navy paymaster stood directly between Mendieta and the stairway. The blast killed both, scratched Mendieta's left hand and wounded a scattering of Cuban officialdom. Said President Mendieta: "It was a terrible surprise but just one of those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns...