Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...file, it offers stimulus to widespread athletic participation, to pleasurable exercise directed toward the development of sound bodies for sane minds. To rapidly spreading spectator sports and grandstand gymnastics, hailed by our fashionable pessimists as the sign of twilight in a decadent generation, it deals an effective body blow...
...Vagabond unfolded himself creakily from his bed and silenced an impertinent alarm clock with a mighty blow. The fact that it was a bright morning penetrated his brain, and he wondered why he'd set the clock at all. A blurry glance at his desk calendar told him it was Friday, September 23. Resisting an impulse to say so what, Vag took to scrutinizing his room in order to discover what he was doing semi-awake at the depressing hour of eight-thirty. He noticed a familiar, ugly gray catalogue entitled "Official Register of Harv----." In a flash he understood...
After striking this blow, Times Editor Geoffrey Dawson was still in good enough standing to lunch with His Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Halifax. While they lunched, the French and Czechoslovak Governments urgently demanded that the Times editorial be repudiated, and every German paper jubilantly front-paged it as showing the "real mind" of Neville Chamberlain. Viscount Runciman, the British Mediator in Prague, began cabling London heavily in code, was reported threatening to resign. Finally, in the evening, at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister issued a communiqué: "The suggestion...
...This is one of the most damaging indiscretions in the records of responsible journalism!" promptly blazed London's Liberal News Chronicle. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's stanch supporter, the Conservative Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, declared: "No more sinister blow could have been struck...
When hardworking, hardheaded young Joseph Vincent Connolly became general manager of the Hearst Newspapers nearly two months ago, Hearstlings throughout the country held on to their chairs and waited for the big blow. The Hearst realm, no longer ruled by its fabulous founder, was now in the hands of men who knew how to save money as well as spend it- and "Smiling Joe" Connolly was one of them. The Hearstian era of prodigality had definitely ended last year when the aging chief consented to the dissolution of his beloved but money-losing New York American (TIME, July...