Word: blew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beer bottle flying by night through the window of a bawdy house, a volley of answering pistol shots flying out of the house, were the projectiles, fired last February, which last fortnight blew the lid off the city government of Champaign, Ill. Indicted for the murder of Sophomore William Spurrier of the University of Illinois was Mrs. Margaret Strothers, Negro proprietress of the bawdy house. Indicted for intentional dereliction of duty in not suppressing vice were Champaign's Mayor James D. Flynn, Chief of Police Roy Argo, State's Attorney Fred B. Hamill, former Sheriff Clarence W. Roth...
...Livers & lights were scared out of people in North Arlington, N. J. when a 3-in. "dud" shell, buried in a vacant lot since it landed there in 1917 after the explosion of a shipment destined for Russia from the Canadian Car & Foundry works, blew up when overheated by a Sunday bonfire...
...staff of the Los Angeles Times in 1910 was a brilliant young reporter who was so sensitive that a bad concert which he covered one night gave him a splitting headache, forced him to quit work early. Ten minutes after he left the building the McNamara boys blew it up, killing 21 men. That was the first occasion when illness brought luck to Willard Huntington Wright...
...seas. She is the Royal Research Ship Research, a trim 770-ton brigantine. Chief job of naval and civilian scientists, to be quartered in her midships, will be to chart magnetic variations, compare their readings with those taken by the Carnegie Institution's Carnegie before she blew up while taking on gasoline in Apia, Samoa...
...islands for an obscure whaling captain-and forgot them. In 1933, French sailors from the surveying ship Astrolabe and the dispatch vessel Alerte, finding a handful of Chinese living happily on the reefs on coconuts, bananas, sweet potatoes and succulent turtles, hoisted a French flag on each island, blew a bugle call, buried bottles containing a French claim to the islands-and forgot them...