Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room in the Senate office building to call on Senators young & old, to having likely new House men brought in to his "school of education" by mutual friends. He does not dazzle them with brilliance. He is more apt to invite them to join him in "striking a blow for liberty" (taking a snort of Mount Vernon rye). He has no whip to crack. He does not drive. He hardly leads. But the Garner gang, fighting an intangible rebellion, is bound together by intangible ties of friendship for and trust in the old man. That such a bloc, so guided...
...British correspondent dared to give away the identity of the "political circles," but several U. S. newsmen did. The incident served as an illustration of how the British Government can get its own press to blow hot or cold as it desires, can often indirectly influence the press of other countries. Notable it was that last week U. S. pundits like Walter Lippmann, Edwin L. James, Dorothy Thompson, William Philip Simms, joined faraway Prime Minister Hertzog of South Africa in being optimistic about a Spring of Peace...
Blast after deafening blast rocked the neighborhood, and with each blow the sky flashed. brighter. Flames spurted up all over the village, spreading fast on an angry north wind into the neighboring factory town of Hirakata...
With Edgar Wallace's background, an other writer might have been deflected from money-making by social conscience or social anger. By-blow of a provincial actress, adopted into a Cockney fishmonger family, he quit school at 12, worked as newsboy, printer's devil, hod carrier, milkman's helper, joined the army at 18, got plenty of hard knocks as he rose from jingo Boer War correspondent to London newspaper editor to rich writer. But said Edgar Wallace in later years: "There cannot be much wrong with a society which made possible the rise of . . . Edgar Wallace...
...took the blow. It was ridiculous. Of course, she went to Wellesley. "Well, where do you go, then...