Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Each time he tried to get away he added from two to five years to his sentence. Eight years had passed before he hit on the scheme of pretending to hang himself so that the jailer would come in and bring the keys. He killed a sentry with a blow of his fist, paddled an outrigger 600 miles back to his own atoll. He had just found Marama again when a hurricane hit the island...
...rope to the church, rescuing Madame de Laage (Mary Astor), whose husband, Resident Governor Eugene de Laage (Raymond Massey). stood ready to send him back to prison. When the waves subside, one group of survivors, lashed to a tree, is bobbing on the waves. Another has weathered the blow in a beached lifeboat in which, while the hurricane raged, a child was somehow born. Madame de Laage shows what good breeding can accomplish by surviving the worst storm in cinema history without spoiling her light dress or losing the wave in her hair. She ends in the arms...
...Bill Heywood have been important cogs in the defense, as also have been Chip Harkness and Art Haussermann, while the "third Bill," Bill Spang, was the chief offensive threat. An injury received in the Dudley game benched this shift spinning back for the rest of the season, a severe blow to the team...
...severe blow was dealt to the custom of riding on the rails of New Haven streetcars to the games last weekend, when it was announced that anyone caught so riding would be subject to arrest...
...minutes in heated conversation. "The tour of our Fatherland which the Duke and Duchess have now completed," remarked one of the Dictator's aides, "has shown how right Der Führer was in judging that King Edward's abdication would be a serious blow to German interests." With ladies Herr Hitler is always the pink of effusive German politeness, took both the Duchess of Windsor's hands in his own as he warmly said good-by to her, snapped a good-by Nazi salute at the Duke of Windsor who snapped one back...