Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year, I nominate General Francisco Franco in appreciation of the death blow he has dealt to international Communism; for liberating the Spanish people from the yoke of Moscow; but chiefly for saving Christian civilization in Spain and thereby throughout the world...
Supposedly he disappeared the morning of the Harvard game, but when the opening whistle blow he was there all right. He really was taken the following spring by Harvard's Lampoon and was photographed licking the boots of John Harvard. Some said the picture was a phoney, but everybody got a laugh...
...Star Wagon, by Maxwell Anderson (who improvises on his own Hammond, and whose sons discovered that its electrical impulses can produce a sound like a blow-out), was not affected, since the Empire Theatre already has a small orchestra. But Many Mansions, which opened last fortnight, felt the full weight of the union's hand. Besides paying a Hammondist $200 a week, its management had to hire three musicians at union scale ($100 a week for the leader. $75 for others). Since no one wanted them to play, the three last week watched the show every night, prepared...
...Most prominent test case challenging the utility death sentence is that brought by Electric Bond & Share Co. which has refused to register with the SEC as required by the Public Utility Act of 1935. This week E. B. & S. and every other utility holding company was dealt a severe blow when the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision of Federal Judge Julian W. Mack which restrained E. B. & S. from using the mails or other means of interstate commerce unless it signed up with...
Intending to toot her horn briefly last night at the intersetion of Linden and Mt. Auburn Streets, a woman driver was distressed when it continued to blow for exactly two minutes and 30 seconds. A passing chauffeur finally silenced the racket, and lusty cheers of relief could be heard the length of the Gold Coast...