Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best to discard Mr. Arno's inane libretto, inject into the proceedings his own particular brand of in sanity. The simple burlesque business that Mr. Clark knows best consists chiefly in manhandling a cigar, shooting people with a trick cane equipped with a rubber-tube to blow smoke through, ogling all pretty girls through spectacles painted on his face, ranging rapidly about the stage at a half-crouch. All this Mr. Clark has done many times before with success. Bad press notices and the lack of any outstand ing talent other than Clark & McCullough put Here Goes the Bride...
...into a battleship in one week. The store also has large supplies of ammunition for sale. These are kept on Banner-man's Island, in the Hudson near Cornwall, N. Y. The Bannerman family spend vacations at this castellated arsenal but very seldom have visitors. A careless cigaret would blow the place to smithereens...
...These men - these directors - dealt Austria a greater blow than they can ever answer for! For months the condition of their bank has influenced every decision of the Government, by reason of the necessity of advancing and guaranteeing huge sums to save the Kreditanstalt from bankruptcy...
...hours of frantic debate, three Deputies had both eyes blacked shut. A blow from behind stunned Deputy Sigfrido Blasco, son of the late, great Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez. Several Deputies stood off physical assaults with drawn revolvers, retained just enough sense not to fire. Along about the middle of the struggle, the National Assembly voted 227 to 41 to adopt as Article III of Spain's new Constitution (full text): "No official State religion shall exist...
...story of the man who cut off his nose while shaving, dropped the razor and cut off his big toe, and in the confusion which overtook him clapped his nose on the stump of his toe, and his toe on his face, so that whenever thereafter he happened to blow his nose, his boot came off. She laughed freely, and felt herself drawn toward...