Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toboggan shoot since the time of Greek drama. In England, even Shakespeare and his contemporaries could not bring it back to that level. Playwrights and actors were not recognized socially until. Sir Henry lrving was knighted 20 years ago. England's stage is just recovering from the blow dealt it by the reaction after Cromwell and the Reformation...
Sickness dealt a blow to Crimson hopes for another state squash championship with the receipt of word from Chicago yesterday that due to an attack of bronchitis which confines him to his home, R. S. Wright '26, number one on the squad, will be unable to play against the strong Boston Athletic Association team this afternoon. The matches will be played from 2.30 to 5.30 o'clock on the University Squash Courts...
Hopes for a University victory suffered a blow with the announcement last night that Gross, veteran left wing, may not be able to start tonight because of illness. Gross has been suffering from a severe cold. In case he is not sufficiently recovered, Harding will probably be at his post in the opening line-up. The latter has been used in every game as a reserve forward, and in the McGill game scored one of the four goals...
...push into the line, were restrained; all went home; the sampietrini, Vatican workmen, rubbed their palms, went home too. A year before Pius XI had opened the Holy Year by hitting the Holy Door with a gold hammer (TIME, Jan. 5). Although strong enough to give a stalwart blow (until immured in the Vatican by papal policy since his election in 1922, he led an active, energetic life; was even a famed mountain climber), he contented himself then with only cracking symbolically a piece of slate in the Door. Sampietrini finished the work of removal...
...general alarm was sent out for his arrest by the New York police . . . to the rank and file of the police department he is known as "Bum." . . . He faced 22 years of prison life, including five years of an unexpired sentence in Auburn . . . clever and dangerous . . . handcuffs . . . a heavy blow from behind . . . two patrolmen . . . escape...