Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through overproduction but through underdistribution. One trade that suffered surpassingly in Depression years, Music, owed its suffering to too much distribution. Innocent wax discs, spinning on thousands of gramophones across the U. S., filled homes and halls with music, filled breadlines with musicmakers who were not needed. Biggest blow to the profession was sound cinema which first became audible in 1926. By 1929 the movies' "canned" musical accompaniments had thrown 10,000 musicians into the streets. Radio stations began to use "electrical transcriptions" more & more, performers less & less. The American Federation of Musicians groped for a way to fight...
These included last week signing numerous papers which would have been signed in Buckingham Palace weeks ago by King Edward had he not carried them off to Fort Belvedere, intending to sign them there. A tendency for such papers to become scattered about and even blow out into the garden was a feature of the last reign, and new King George last week was a very great comfort to the British Cabinet in this respect. When His Majesty is asked to sit down and sign a paper by his Principal Private Secretary, the King first observes whether...
...forum of free debate. Public opinion should smash LaFollette's attempt to make puppets of the University Regents and to subject the State university to his personal predilections. If an outstanding educator like Glenn Frank is toppled from his post, the cause of academic freedom will receive a stunning blow...
...your girl?" In Whitehall, Mr. Winston Churchill and his followers are now openly called "The King's Men," in Britain a most ominous title dating back to bloody affrays between Crown and Commons. Wolfishly James Maxton says that the British ruling class are being dealt a perhaps mortal blow...
...Second blow is the surly reception to Rembrandt's mass portrait of Captain Banning Cocq's conceited officers. This huge, sombre painting, generally called The Night Watch, is now recognized as one of the world's greatest. When it was unveiled, all Amsterdam laughed, both at the officers and at Rembrandt. Even his friends could not understand his modern chiaroscuro. As a result, Rembrandt's art went out of style, himself into bankruptcy...