Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vasco to place bombs on the roof of the Cathedral and had, on the fatal day, signaled when the building was full, whereupon Vasco had fired the fuse to the bombs. One Friedmann, pleading not guilty, admitted that he was a Communist, that he knew of the plans to blow up the Cathedral, but called the attempt "a stupid thing which could not have had anything like a practical result." The Government charged that the wife of a former Premier (probably Mme. Stambulisky) was implicated...
...after hearing of his election, said: "The people must not imagine I shall let myself be steered by any party." But he will be the symbol of Monarchy and as such can be counted upon with certainty on rallying still more Germans to the cause of Monarchism. The first blow has been struck for the return of the Monarchy...
...crude satire on U. S. society which, whatever it is, is what it is and at that not vastly different from other societies. What, it may be asked, is the use of the corps diplomatique straining its brains and buttons to preserve the international amenities when at one fell blow they are violated without pomp or ceremony by a pictorial incitement to popular mutiny. It remains a shining platitude that all the efforts of suave diplomatists to weld Anglo-Saxonism into a case-hardened ideal are as a potato to a sitting hen in the face of the deft strokes...
...most beautiful words in the English language. The student yawns, stretches his legs, and reaches for a time-table. "Philadelphia and New York ho-hum--Bermuda, Hot Springs, Pinehurst--let's see." Oh why worry about trains and solid facts. The sun beams geniably, gentle zephyrs blow, the old elms are putting out new buds, and the grass in front of Sever is greener then eyer before. The brisk concourse on the walks has changed to idle groups of strollers who playfully feed the squirrels and resent the bell's last call to classes...
...went well at Lexington," the CRIMSON's predecessor relates, "but the President and the northwest wind--the latter failing to please because it did blow, and the former because he didn't--but both seem to be unaccountable to any human authority. . . . Our nation's President carried off his one great role of sphinx-like and dignified silence with great effect. We believe that he was not observed to smile during the whole course of the day, except, indeed, when a Harvard cheer saluted him, given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering. He then gracefully removed...