Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amusing machinations of Vincent Palmer and his marionettes who stage the new famous fight between Gale Noyes and Charles Apted, the noted slenth. Mr. Apted's famed perceptiveness failed him upon this occasion and when Gale called his attention to his shoe-laces the Colonial bit and received the blow that counted...
...metal helmet with one panel of thick glass. Inside this airtight, electrically heated outfit, oxygen was fed under pressure to chubby, tousle-haired Pilot Post. On his first flight Post got lost, had trouble with his oxygen valve, spent some bad moments in fear he might literally blow up. On the second, his motor quit, forced him to make a dead-stick landing after 150-m.p.h. gales had chipped paint from his plane, torn rivets out of place...
...hailed this Grubb opinion as a victory. Lowly utility shares rallied briskly on the stockmarket. Director Lilienlhal rejoiced: "It is upon this very basis that the Authority has been administering the law as it pertains to power." Donald Richbcrg jeered: "The opinion of Judge Grubb must be a sad blow to the highly-paid lawyers recently employed by the Edison Electric Institute to demonstrate that the entire grant of power to the TVA was unconstitutional...
...motoring. Before buying a used car the British motorist has it "expertized" by his club, knows what he is buying. Last week nobody knew better than Major Hore-Belisha that his antics as Minister of Transport are merely a smart flash in the political pan. They may help to blow him far, even perhaps-eventually-to the Prime Ministry...
...darted from the crowd, thrust something into the laps of the King and Crown Prince. As at Marseille when King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated (TIME, Oct. 15), the usual ornate, equestrian guard spurred forward a few seconds late to cut the man down with a terrific sabre blow...