Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This gentleman has dazzled Massachusetts with his virtuosity ever since the days of Charles Ponzi, the sleight-of-hand banker whose blow-up rocked Boston 18 years ago. Mr. McMasters was Mr. Ponzi's pressagent.* When the blow-up came, the Boston Post scooped the story. Its informant: Pressagent McMasters...
...considerably battered Varsity football squad which took the practice field yesterday afternoon following the fiercely fought Ithacan engagement Saturday. Hardest blow to the Harlowmen was the announcement that blocked Chief Boston is definitely out of the impending Army battle...
...vividness and punch Big Blow is another Federal Theatre feat comparable to last season's Haiti. Dealing with the Florida Crackers-blood cousins to Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road poor whites-it paints a frightening picture of ignorance, prejudice, cruelty: the natives' Calibanesque way of life, their hatred of ""furriners"," their venom toward Negroes, their savage Holy Roller hysteria...
Vivid, Big Blow is also crude. Its startling picture is half-spoiled by a stale plot. Its genuine drama of the hurricane is tarnished by the regulation melodrama of the hack. For its effectiveness. Big Blow can thank its subject, not its playwright...
...shambles and the crew has gone through an experience calculated to turn even Conrad's seamen green around the gills. A hurricane begins when wind velocity reaches 75 miles an hour. On the second day the Archimedes, its rudder gone, is broadside in a 200-mile blow and the barometer has dropped out of sight. Hatch covers are sucked off like corks out of a bottle. The funnel is gone, the boilers flooded; there is no food, no water, no light. The Chinese crew is huddled in a corner like a half-dead pile of fish. The officers, although...