Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villain of a new fairy tale written by Soviet Author Andrei Platonov for Pionerskaya Pravda, which aims to show the Socialist way to children under 14. Author Platonov put his two Crumbs in a hunter's beard, and there got them into arguments. Gunpowder Crumb threatened to blow up not only Bread Crumb, but self, beard and hunter. At the moment of crisis, a sparrow snatched Gunpowder from the hunter's brush and was heroically destroyed when Gunpowder exploded. Bread Crumb, meanwhile, came to his appointed happy end. The hunter ate him. Platonov's moral: "Bread gave...
Chicago's jazz fans last week were in blue heaven. After years of moaning that all their local boys had fled to the fleshpots of two coasts for fame & fortune, the jazzbos had all come home to blow...
...people, and a survey as methodical as this picture cannot hope to contain thrills and excitement. Instead it works up an almost morbid eagerness to find out what new civilized horror is coming next. Sympathetic characters turn out to have subconscious prejudices, and each unkind word strikes a new blow at the hero. As usual there is a love story in the middle, and very soon even it becomes entangled with anti-semitism...
...Telephone Rang. Last October, Michael's mother, Queen Helen, was summarily commanded to vacate her Banloc villa. Rumania's blowzy, blow-torchy Communist boss and Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, her ruddiest henchmen and Yugoslavia's Tito needed a meeting place. Tito arrived in a private train protected by 1,500 crack troops and a food-taster. The servants in the villa were locked up to insure privacy, and for four days (while Rumania's top Communists rustled their own food and made their own beds) the policymakers discussed Queen Helen's son Michael...
...after 1) a tussle with a bad cold, 2) a spell of bronchitis, 3) a plague of morbid rumors that had far-off London wringing its hands. Wife Clementine flew down with her husband's private physician. Next day the patient went motoring, dealt the rumors a crushing blow by dining in public on soup, fish with mayonnaise, veal soufflé, cake with whipped cream, tangerines and coffee...