Word: blew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stuart Rolls, son of Lord Llangattock, precociously demonstrated his electrical ability by rigging up an apparatus in his mother's bedroom so that the moment she sat in her favorite armchair the room would burst into light. Plump Lady Llangattock sat down so hard she squashed the switch, blew out a fuse. Partner Frederick Henry Royce, struggling against youthful poverty, had no time for pranks. A modest builder of electrical cranes in Manchester, he had just gone to bed in a cheap London hotel one night in 1903 when Mr. Rolls burst in and introduced himself as a salesman...
...DEALERS-Unofficial Observer-Simon & Schuster ($2.75). A capital ship for an ocean trip Was the Walloping Windowblind! No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's mind; The man at the wheel was taught to feel Contempt for the wildest blow, Tho' it often appeared when the weather had cleared, That he'd been in his bunk below. -Charles Edward Carryl...
...northeast of Hongkong, is notorious as a base of operations for Chinese pirates. A high sea and an incoming fog made it more unwholesome than usual. At 6:35 p. m. the officers were at mess when an exhaust gasket on one of the Fulton's Diesel engines blew out. In an instant spurting flames enveloped a tank containing oil for the engines. The tank exploded and fire filled the engine room...
...best-known books (David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist) know them only in abridged form. No mere abridgment but a complete condensed revision, Graves's David Copperfield may well be come the text posterity knows best. So loudly indignant were ruffled British criics, however, that Publishers Harcourt, Brace blew hot & cold about bringing out a U. S. edition. They scheduled one for last week, withdrew it, finally compromised on publishing a school textbook of Graves's version, further edited by one Merrill P. Paine, Elizabeth, N. J. school teacher. Readers who took the trouble to compare The Real...
...four matches. Then Vines took two in succession. At Los Angeles last week Vines won his seventh. That match lasted four hours and made tennis history when Tilden finally took a 44-game set. At Long Beach two nights later it was Vines who needed rest. He blew up, dropped two miserable sets...