Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pierre Fronval looped 1,111 consecutive, uninterrupted loops, in 4 hrs. 56 min. at Velizy airdrome outside Paris. Each loop was followed by an official hammer blow delivered by an Aero Club representative upon a wooden table. A French notary legalized the record by stamping the Republic's seal upon the table. When the U. S. record of 1,093 loops in six hours was passed the crowd cheered as Frenchmen cheer champions. A Hispano-Suiza motor, the make used by Costes and Lebrix, and a Morane plane endured the strain...
...Willis. The Republican rumpus was really an explosion-the bursting of the Willis candidacy, which all along had reminded observers of the bullfrog who thought he could blow himself up to be a bull...
...America's air idol and far too valuable to aviation to risk an unfortunate accident. An accident to him would be a serious blow to the future of aviation, and I am going to ask him to confine his activities to ordinary flying in the future...
...virtual demand that the controversy be disposed of in the traditional manner. The other dispute was over the intention of President Coolidge, at this session, to include under new immigration laws the countries of the New as well as of the Old World. Any such plan was hit a blow by implication of a resolution introduced at the Pan-American conference, that any American republic may restrict immigration "from a non-American continent." The Latin-American republics were unanimously in favor of the resolution, and it was all ready for passage when United States Ambassador Fletcher, whose duty...
...sensitive feelings of the artist are often given a cruel blow by the jibes of an unsympathetic critic. Having delivered himself upon the high altar of his art, to say nothing of the lucrative desk of defiled Mammon, the minor playright shudders at the crudity of those to whom it is not given to understand the scope of greatness. That criticism has constructive as well as destructive powers is forgotten by the mangled remains of budding genius forgotten also that there are standards which must be realized, a public that must be informed and protected...