Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mencken granted an interview to the CRIMSON in which he outlined the issues at stake. "This Chase," said Mr. Mencken, "has had the publishers and booksellers of this vicinity right where he wanted them for years. When that unfortunate fellow, Felix, got into his net he suffered to a blow aimed...
...over the country little knots of pressmen guardedly voiced their secret glee at what they considered a body blow to the Administration's "spokesman" system. Famed Washington correspondent Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sini, who has consistently twitted Mr. Coolidge on one ground or another ever since he appeared at Washington as Vice President, was openly delighted last week. He gloated: "Mr. Kellogg had a nervous fit. There was perturbation in the Coolidge circle. The trouble was they had been thinking in terms of domestic publicity, not world publicity. What they got was world publicity, and a large...
...their connection with amateur sport. The other day, the Western Conference passed a rule forbidding students at any of the colleges under its jurisdiction to participate in meets held under A. A. U. auspices. Though apparently aimed at the bogie of professionalism, this decree was promulgated as a blow to the prestige of the Eastern clubs that comprise the national governing body...
...Wales lay flat upon his back, kicked, squalled. "Lala" disciplined him, and later dried his tears. As a child, even the serene Princess Mary had her tantrums. "Lala" soothed her temper, tidied her frock. Later she assisted the youthful Prince Henry and the still younger Prince George to blow their noses, etc. For years, in fact, "Lala" was indispensable as the nursery maid of the Windsors...
Kicked and beaten, another, down on all fours, reaching out his hand to pick up the valuable lens of his shattered machine. A policeman smashed the reaching hand with a neat blow . . . kicked the lens far away...