Word: blew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yarmouth, Minn., walking through the woods, Keith Grey, farmer, blew his nose. A neighbor mistook the sound for a deer's snort, shot Farmer Grey in the neck...
...incident on which Kameradschaft is based occurred at Courrieres, Alsace-Lorraine, in 1906. When part of a mine on the French side of the border blew up. German miners from the other side came over to help rescue the imprisoned miners. International-minded Director Pabst moved the disaster up to 1919, showed the reminiscent rancor of the War in an exclamation by the sweetheart of an imprisoned French miner when she hears that a rescue party is coming over from the German side. She says: "Les Alle-magnes?c'est impossible!" The Germans pile out of trucks, go down...
Last week the Southern Cross VI was hobbling along near Aneityum in the New Hebrides (midway between Australia and the Fijis). A sudden squall blew up. dashed the ship on a coral reef. She began to sink. Captain A. M. Stanton had to get his men ashore. First the crew tried to lower a boat. Monster waves lashed it, smashed it to bits. When a second attempt failed, an officer took a line in his teeth, dived into the swirling sea. He swam for half an hour, at last reached the beach 150 yd. away, crawled up cut and bleeding...
...believe anything; they were called upon to surrender all their beliefs and unite in a cause for which many may have had little personal feeling. That they were able to submerge their individual beliefs and their personal emotions, and ride forth into obscurity and oblivion when the trumpet blew, should win the profoundest reverence of those of us to whom a more fortunate world allows the indulgence of individuality. Each generation establishes its own problems and its own duties. War was their problem; it was too late to undeclare it; no duty was left them but the answer...
Last week the lid blew off. Aroused, so the police said, by relief workers' complaints at their own meager salaries, a mob of 10,000 jobless poured out of the Falls Road district and marched on the city poorhouse in an effort to force the Ulster government to increase their dole. A gang of toughs discovered a Free State truck loaded with cases of Guinness's stout from Dublin. In no time the air was thick with stout bottles. Store windows were smashed, dairies and greengrocers looted, bonfires lighted. Hand to hand fighting broke out at several places...