Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge $22 million opera house that Chicagoans call "Insull's Folly," his tiny orchestra (he brought 37 musicians with him, added 25 Chicagoans) had to saw and blow hard to be heard; and his singers, fearful of losing themselves-and their voices - in the 75-ft.-deep stage, hovered close to the footlights. When it was over, some veteran operagoers who remembered Mary Garden's Salome thought that Brenda Lewis' striptease with the seven veils was a bit corny. But one listener, as taken with Brenda's figure as with her singing, reported: "Salome...
Last week all undergraduates at England's Cambridge University got a stiff, stern letter from Vice Chancellor Charles E. Raven. It concerned their behavior on Guy Fawkes Day, on the 342nd anniversary of Fawkes's unsuccessful attempt to blow up the House of Lords...
Beginners truly start from the ground up. Footwork is first, Lamar explained. Then he teaches a single blow, the block for that blow, and the counter-punch. Garbed in a black-wool outfit that looks like a cross between Dr. Dentines and Gay Nineties bathing togs, he stands on a podium at one end of the room and drawls instructions to the class. He then demonstrates each blow and its ramifications, and lets the boys try it out on one another...
Actually, there are few injuries, Lamar pointed out, and the extent of these is usually a nose-bleed or a twisted hand that results from an improperly delivered blow...
About a year ago, a comrade appeared at her back door to ask a slight favor: "Nothing dangerous, nothing incriminating, you understand ..." A young girl whose family had been killed in the 1944 uprising was in trouble with the police. Of course, the affair would blow over in a couple of days-meanwhile, could Stavroula keep the girl out of sight? She agreed. The girl stayed on for weeks...