Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime (1911-13, 1913-22, resigned) Senator, now presiding Judge of Iowa in the Federal Court of Appeals, unmitigatedly damned the folly of parents who send their sons to college with automobiles, said: "Rather than do that I would buy 30 cents' worth of powder and blow him up. It would be fairer to the boy." Much more he said, called Judge Ben Lindsey's trial marriage proposal (TIME, Jan. 24) "absurd idea," said of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson that she "crossed the entire country capitalizing her notoriety...
Girls of Emory University at Atlanta, Ga., cringed. "... Simple hell cats with muddy minds." The Methodist revivalist was roaring at them. Outside it was full spring. Gay flowers beckoned to be plucked for coat lapels; breezes would blow at hair loosed in vernal gayety. But the girls, and boys, of Emory, sat awed as Dr. Clovis Chapel of Memphis continued to castigate: "The average girl of 17 would not greatly object to appearing nude if she had any excuse to do so. ... Modesty has already burst; it is dead. The average girl of today is like the moth fluttering around...
...wrote the doctor, in effect, "my cigars are terrible and I blow the smoke in my opponent's face, why do my opponents never object at the time of blowing? Furthermore, if my cigars were of inferior quality, they would destroy the subtle, inimitable fabric of my own game. Those who have seen me play and watched the smoke curve will bear witness that it curves away from rather than toward my opponent." He went...
...continued his story. "After working around the Yard for a few years, I was given the job of lighting the Yard lights. I used to carry a bottle of bensine and a torch around with me every night, and fill and light each lamp separately. Sometimes the wind would blow them out as fast as I could light them, and then I'd have o start all over again...
...Then blow, ye critics, blow; A-sailing we will go; The merest hint of a nice blue-print Will drive the foe away...