Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgian people saw their handsome young King Leopold III emerge decisively last week from his grief-stricken brooding over the death of his beloved Queen Astrid (TIME. Sept. 9, 1935) and strike a heavy blow of statecraft which resounded from one end of Europe to the other. To the neat, bright Royal Palace in Brussels were summoned Premier-Professor Paul van Zeeland and Cabinet to hear an historic declaration reversing the post-War foreign policy of Belgium. By boldly assuming full responsibility for what he said, His Majesty raised his declaration above the cockpit of party politics, placed...
...matter of the bombing school is exactly the behavior of the new Antichrist throughout Europe. . . . The establishment of the bombing field would make imminent the death of our Welsh nation. . . . It is my responsibility for the Kingdom of God in Wales that urged me to strike the blow for Wales. Our allegiance to the laws of Christianity is infinitely higher than our allegiance to the laws of England...
...into a sofa and murmurs to a young woman who wants to take him to a party at Southampton: "I am 32, my dear. My dancing days are over." If imperturbable, emaciated, 45-year-old Mr. Webb's dancing days are indeed over, it will be a bitter blow to those who recall with pleasure his slick gyrations in Sunny, Three's A Crowd, Flying Colors, As Thousands Cheer. In the case of And Stars Remain, however, the revue's loss is definitely the drama's gain, for Webb has the best Oxford accent that ever...
...Turney tells the story, the priest Calchas (Harry Irvine) is clamoring for a ''holy war" to rescue divine Helen from Troy, but the gods will not let Troyward winds blow until the unclean house of Atreus is purged by sacrifice. Iphigenia, daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, is lured to Aulis in the belief that she is to wed Achilles, and Calchas there prepares to sacrifice her. Mad with grief when Agamemnon refuses to interfere, Clytemnestra blasphemes the gods, calls Helen a whore, vows vengeance upon her husband. When Agamemnon returns from Troy after 1,007 days...
...belt. Off his feet, he requires four men to stand him up again. Opponents find him formidable be cause he is too big to hold, too slippery to twist, too heavy to lift. Leviathan Levy's only trick is to knock down an adversary with a blow of his paunch, then lie down on top of him. Currently trying to impair his appearance further by growing a beard, Leviathan Levy hopes next month to "wrestle" Man Mountain Dean (TIME...