Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no mountain worthy of the name within hundreds of miles, but the townsfolk of New Glarus, Wis. (pop. 1,068) like to get out and yodel. They also blow ten-foot Alphorns made from fir logs, build houses with high roofs typical of the Swiss Alps, talk a Schweizer-deutsch patois, hang sweet-chiming Swiss bells around the necks of their innumerable brown Swiss cows, and produce vast quantities of Swiss cheese and Swiss lace...
...between two and three thousand canvases." But whether or not some of his early paintings were counterfeit, critics infinitely preferred them to his recent products. Chirico, who once led the parade along with Picasso and Matisse, had run out of gas long ago. Now all he could do was blow his horn...
Corporal Valtin's job in the 24th was gathering Joe Blow stories to be sent to U.S. hometown papers. Much of Children of Yesterday reads like an extended P.R.O. report: Pvt. So-and-So of Topeka, Kans. did this, Lieut. So-and-So of Valdosta, Ga. did that. So many hundreds (probably 500 to 1,000) of individuals are mentioned by rank, name and home address that at points the text must come almost straight from unit rosters...
...winds of power politics blow good to some. Last week the beneficiary, long persecuted in the Moslem world, was Christianity's eldest daughter, Armenia.* The benefactor was atheist Russia...
...arranging for distribution himself. Profits in pocket, he then dissolved the corporation. Instead of paying income taxes, which ran up to 90%, the producer paid only a capital gains tax of 25% (TIME, Nov. 5, 1945). Result: independent producers had sprouted so fast that by last week, when the blow fell, almost half of all Hollywood pictures were being made by independents...