Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since it is the virile Mohammedans and not the lackadaisical, jabbering Hindus who might be expected to strike a blow for "Dominion Status," the service of His Highness the Aga Khan to Britain, last week, was worth incalculably more than even the fat Khan's great weight in gold...
...inch in length, on the third finger of the left hand . . . and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will reinstate for a sixpence. His loss is a rent from top to bottom of a very beautiful black coat, which cost the ruffian $40, and a blow in the face, which may have knocked down his throat some of his infernal teeth for anything I know. Balance in my favour $39.94. ... I never will abandon the cause of truth, morals and virtue...
...Gandhi's order, even the Empire Prime Minister, big and beefy Stanley Baldwin, might well tremble at the ultimatum of India's skinny little saint. As matters stand, it can only be said that the Gandhi boycott of several years ago was a serious but not fatal blow to Great Britain's vital trade with India. Whether a more effective boycott could be staged next year is a question for Hindu Gods-and Mohammed's Allah-to answer. Last week the Subjects Committee of the Indian National Congress put Saint Gandhi's ultimatum...
...anyone can lead India's lazy enervated Hindus to strike a virile blow at Britain, that someone is the Pandit...
...hotels where a man can keep a girl or a case of liquor or organize a fairly professional gambling game. Word would go to the little restaurant : "Room such-and-such, Hotel so-and-so." The dapper gentlemen played only among themselves, or with sports like themselves who would blow in from other big cities to "take that mob over the jumps...