Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delivered a telling blow to Herbert Hoover, whose followers in California have lately been working like beavers to root Senator Johnson out of public life...
...Efforts to promulgate banking regulations under the banking code brought a blow-up from General Johnson, when depositors howled against proposed service charges. Cried he: "If the banks want to commit suicide nobody is going to worry much about it ... but I am interested in protecting the public...
Smarting under Justice O'Byrne's blow to his prestige, President de Valera was hit again last week by the Bishop of his home constituency, the Right Reverend Michael Fogarty of Killaloe. In a speech to undergraduates of a Catholic college the Bishop blamed the President for inviting trade reprisals, cried: "You are the sons of farmers whose unhappy lot it has become to see their industry and sole source of livelihood practically killed by a heartlessness which is inconceivable." As if to nail home the Bishop's point Britain last week made the Free State farmers...
...gentleman has played in Harvard life for the last thirty three years. At every commencement since 1899 he has donned his blue court coat with gold buttons, his white waistcoat, and top hat, and has marched in the annual June academic procession to open the ceremonies with a blow of his official sword on the rostrum and the traditional words, "The assembly will now come to order...
...University engineer, the Adams House engineer, the janitor, and the plenipotentiary of the Maintenance Department at a consultation around the hearth yesterday, opined that they could blow away the whole trouble, by putting the fan under the fire. Common Room loungers however were skeptical, saying that the smoke would be blown around them stronger and steadier. We suggest a gas-range...