Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once in a little southern town she made rough workmen passing by the railroad yard hold their breath while she spoke to them from atop a pile of tar-smeared ties. An enraptured foreman forgot to blow his whistle...
...interrupted in preparing to dynamite a large rock near Guadalupe, by a mob of peasant women who insisted that the Mother of God had once sat upon that very rock. Agnostics, the dynamiters were unimpressed. Passionate, the women clung to the Virgin's rock, defied the workmen to blow them up. At last policemen charged the women, dragged them to a safe distance, held them ungently until the rock was dynamited to atoms...
...Fuller '26, one of those arrested, was injured after being placed in the patrol wagon. Fuller had an unlighted pipe in his mouth. He was ordered to remove the pipe, but before he could comply, he was hit across the face with a night stick. The blow broke his glasses, fractured his nose, and inflicted a gash that required three stitches on his cheek...
...dazed condition to the patrol wagon. At the station he refused to give his name to anyone but the desk sergeant. He was seized by three patrolmen, dragged to the hall, and while two of them held his arms, a third knocked him unconscious with a fist blow to the face...
...Shaw '28, walking home in company with Arthur Clement on Holyoke Street, was overtaken by a crowded patrol wagon on the way to the station. Although neither Shaw nor Clement offered any resistance, they were both thrown into the wagon, Shaw after receiving a blow on, the head that necessitated several stitches, Benjamin Dorman '29, half a block down the street received the same treatment, and did not recover complete consciousness for several hours...