Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carried away by a head wind of 115 miles an hour. Soon the thermometer registered 57° below zero and instruments ceased to work at all. Finally the oxygen line to Capt. Stevens' breathing cap froze and his head nodded forward. When Lieut. Doolittle struck him a stinging blow in the face he recovered just long enough to see his assailant fall forward exhausted by the exertion this effort had cost him at such an altitude. Out of control, the plane dived thousands of feet into the oxygen-laden air below, where both made a timely recovery, landed...
...This, they think, is strange, Where so many are satisfied to exchange their pennies, there must be something wrong with those who cannot find a metal worthy of their own coin. So they make a resolution for their own good and spend their money on a toy whistle to blow, just because everybody else has a whistle, and spend the rest of the time trying to think of tunes to play on the whistle...
Last week, speaking to 600 officers of the Fascist militia, Secretary Turati snorted: "The whole world is against us. We are against the whole world because we are antidemocrats, anti-Liberals, anti-Socialists. Fascismo is a thorn in Europe's eye, a hard blow in her back, an army which obeys, fights, dies and does not argue...
Arthur Richman's comedy is ill-illumined insomuch as it fails to provide the electric brilliance of witty, speeches which must accompany such efforts. Its sophisticated persons light their cigarets with the elan that should precede an epigram; then they blow the smoke out as if they were at home. The company is distinguished: A. E. Matthews, the hero of a thousand stage affairs, is the detective who telephones to the cuckold, assuring him that in a week at latest he will have grounds for a New York State divorce. The cavorting adulteress is Mary Boland...
...batch of small balloons was the most important baggage of three young Naval officers aboard the Shipping Board liner America when she left Manhattan for Cherbourg last week. All the journey across the Atlantic, and back to Manhattan, the young men are to blow up the balloons with gas and watch them float and bob away to the limit of their tethers. While aloft the balloons will indicate upper air currents. When they are pulled back to the America's deck, self-registering thermometers on some will show upper air temperature variation. All the observations will provide facts...