Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: What's this I hear about your being on the air only one night a week? The half hour part is fine, but the once-a-week part takes a lot of joy out of life. If you only knew what a body blow it is to lose this splendid program...
...astonishingly bolder. Drastic censorship in both Tokyo and Nanking has delayed and blurred this greatest Far East news story. By last week, however, it seemed clear that the present which her bantamweight Premier & Generalissimo was giving his country on his 50th birthday was a heavyweight and possibly a knockout blow of Chinese statecraft, ending the policy toward Japan which the Nanking Government has pursued for nearly a decade: the turn-the-other-cheek policy of accepting humiliation...
...When Minnesota's blind, blatant Senator Thomas D. Schall died last December, Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd B. Olson appointed his quiet, abstemious, hard-working banking commissioner, Elmer A. Benson, to serve the unexpired term, be thus groomed to succeed as Governor. When Governor Olson died last summer, the blow to President Roosevelt's chances of carrying Minnesota caused him to persuade the State's Democratic nominees for Senator and Governor to withdraw in favor of the Farmer-Labor candidates. Old-line Democrats grumbled. Republicans shouted that the President had "sold his Party down the river...
None the less, Minister-President Göring has now been given powers to tamper with almost everything in Germany, powers so sweeping that this fact is of radical significance and a blow to laissez-faire Capitalism. Another blow was an intimation from the Minister-President that he will fix by decree on Nov. 9 the retail price in Germany of meat and meat products, including beef, pork, tallow, lard, bacon, ham and sausages...
There should be a trumpet to blow when a picture like "Give Me Your Heart" comes to the University. It has already converted one Kay Francis hater, and she is still the weakest member of the cast. Of course the triangle has some clever new angles, but the dialogue and minor situations are what really give the actors their chance. Precious feet of film are given to good conversation, and the audience has a chance to enjoy the picture instead of having to follow a bewildering series of action shots...