Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, Don José Tormos Diego, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, told reporters what he thought of the Nationalists who tried to assassinate Governor Blanton Winship in the mayor's home town (TIME, Aug. 1). "If I could speak the English by the books," he spluttered, "I would blow their nose, by damn...
Weighty Newspundit Walter Lippmann, in Paris to hail Democracy's new potency in Europe, resulting from recent Anglo-French rearmament and collaboration, cabled: "The period of Franco-British impotence under the menace of a knockout blow came to an end in April of this year. The end was marked by the creation of what is in all but name an alliance. This alliance was tested in the Czechoslovak crisis of May 21 and survived its first severe practical test...
...right!" was "Happy" Chandler's attempt at cheerfulness after Franklin Roosevelt had departed. But that night at Bowling Green, in praising Kentucky's other Senator, Marvel Mills Logan, for standing "square like a rock" on a certain occasion, the President dealt the young Governor a painful backhand blow. Senator Logan explained that on the occasion referred to. "Happy" Chandler had gone to the White House with the proposal that Senator Logan be made a Federal judge so that Chandler could go to the Senate without threatening the seat of Majority Leader Barkley. The President and Senator Logan...
...Threatening to give the already much-publicized Countess Barbara "three years of hell with headlines," the Count was then represented by Solicitor Mitchell as having talked of suicide, murder, blackmail and kidnapping. This prompted Countess Barbara to have the Count arrested when he came to England. "If I blow my brains out everybody will know Barbara drove me to it," Solicitor Mitchell quoted Count Haugwitz-Reventlow as saying ; as to the murder victim, he was to be a "gentleman of London," (left unnamed by agreement of opposing counsel) who would first be challenged to a duel, than shot down "like...
...just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry. Three men had been furtively plotting. Their plot: to blow up a Northern Pacific locomotive...