Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought I could blow out the gasoline, but I am intoxicated with...
...casket to church, stood near it, sang funeral hymns. Before these had been finished, Fannie Broyles opened her eyes for one brief second. Soon she opened them again, waggled her hand and got out of her coffin. Afraid of being buried while alive, she had completely recovered from the blow that had stunned...
Boston has received a sad blow, or at least it might be sad to those who were inclined to take such things as statistics and reputation seriously to heart. The Rev. Charles Francis Potter, speaking at a meeting in New York, having recently made a survey of the "high and low spots on the American cultural map," apparently taking as his standard the per capita appropriation for library maintenance, disclosed the fact that Cleveland has within the last five years passed Boston as the cultural center of the country...
...blow to Boston, if such a conclusion be one, is slight compared with the condition of Chicago which is described as "not a bit higher on the cultural level than Dayton, Tenn." One is tempted to think that Dr. Potter's inferences may have some deeper basis of judgement than contributions to the maintenance of municipal libraries. Boston may be the object of prejudice in his mind. Since Dayton and Chicago are linked together one is tempted to infer that the Dayton fear of the British have some common origin. Perhaps Boston may be taken to task for its book...
...arena. A train hit the buggy, killing two. Griffo stumbled into the ring drunk, dazed. The bell rang. Griffo, fumbling a towel, swayed to the centre of the ring, bent down to spread the towel. Tracy, ignorant of the rules of the handkerchief trick, hit him a shattering blow behind the ear. Griffo was out. Griffo swelled to 235 pounds before he died. For years too fat for the handkerchief trick, he never lost the lightning of his hand and eye. To the day of his death he could catch a fly in flight between his thumb & forefinger...