Word: bloomin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governor of world-spraddling Lever Brothers, Ltd. (Lux, Lifebuoy Soap), tell about the perplexity of efficiency experts over a certain laborer, the only worker in a factory to pull, not push, his wheelbarrow. Asked why, the laborer said: "Well, guv'nor, hi 'ates the ight of the bloomin' thing...
...barometer from 30 in. to 28 in.-lowest Captain Binks had ever seen. So rough was New York's almost landlocked harbor that mail boats could take off only 700 of the Olympic's mail load of 13,108 bags. Captain Binks called it "the worst bloomin' sea I ever saw in 35 years at Quarantine." Unconnected with Captain Binks's retirement was the accident seven months ago in which the Olympic cut the Nantucket Lightship in half, killed seven of her crew (TIME, May 28). To newshawks last week he said he "didn...
...must have been in April that Susan B. Anthony first taught men that suffrage is the badge of all our race. When spring comes into the land and leaves it "so soft, so warm, so bloomin' blue" men are like to be caught unawares and say things they don't quite mean. Especially at such times are they wont to confer upon women powers which are not theirs to possess. And--for such are women--they will not help them in their blindness. The Vagabond would like leave to amplify this thought, for in the past, he, along with countless...
...beat, by the tax-leeched natives whom he had ruled, by voodoo devils, by the weakness of the mortal flesh. Three shots rang out. His Majesty fell, staggered forward, collapsed at the feet of Smithers, white, rum-soaked, trader. "Where's year 'igh an' mighty airs now, yer bloomin' Majesty? Gawd blimey, but yer died in the 'eighth o' style...