Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after such an exhibition. The air above the stands during the second half was filled with flying paper-wads made of soaked copies of the H. A. A. News. It apparently began as a protest against ladies' umbrellas, but was continued for its own sake. I received a hard blow in the eye from a rolled magazine as I turned my head for an instant . . . I am extremely thankful that I received the blow instead of the girl I was with, and that it did not strike endwise, instead of sideways, as it did, so that most of the force...
...stand for open intervention. Instead Italy insisted on discussing recall of volunteers not at a three-power conference but before all 27 nations of the impotent Nonintervention Committee, including Italy's ally Germany. Britain and France were forced to agree. Lest this sound like too much of a blow to British prestige Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden addressed a Government rally at Llandudno, Wales...
...those who feel that President Roosevelt has, ever since his inauguration been consistent about only one thing, namely the advocacy of policies which deal blow after blow to business of all kinds, small and large, the President's latest action in calling a special session of Congress to deal with wages and hours at this time, has merely confirmed their theories...
...real recovery was the farthest thing from the President's mind. The original Securities Act, although designed ostensibly to prevent frauds and protect the public, in reality acted as a firm blockade against the receipt of the new capital so sorely needed by American business. Perhaps the crowning blow was the undistributed profits tax and its hand-maiden, the capital gains tax. The first, by destroying all hope of building up a reserve fund on which to count in less prosperous days, has done more than its share in causing lack of confidence and bringing on the present recession. Both...
Stepping to the switchboard, Mr. Scott announced, "And now I'll show you the . . ." but nothing happened although he had manipulated a dozen switches and plugs. "Hmmm," said Mr. Scott. He revealed that his invention would blow a fuse under certain complex electrical conditions. "Yes, that's one of Matilda's idiosyncrasies," he remarked...