Word: blowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uncompensated loss was Blow-by-blower Clem McCarthy's. The loss: his poise. Son of an auctioneer and veterinary dentist, he is vociferous, deft-tongued, sportswise by inheritance, has a record of 244 words a minute. Still warming to his work when Champion Louis had finished his, Ringsider McCarthy was reduced to dithering bewilderment. His most absurd dither: "This is the shortest fight on record wherein a title changed hands...
...Gris Nez, France, last week 22-year-old Thomas Blower, Nottingham factory hand, slathered himself with grease, slid into the chill water of the English Channel. Plowing the waves like a torpedo, he swam eleven miles in five hours, was four miles off the Dover breakwater in nine hours, met a strong southwesterly tide and was three hours covering the next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record...
...ruthless Dictator is practical. He and Trotsky are always spitting in each other's face, but at an Oriental bazaar the rug dealers think nothing of a little saliva-and J. Stalin is to his grim fingertips an Oriental, a Georgian brigand, bomb-thrower and safe-blower who is now on terms of diplomatic friendship with fellow Dictators, Presidents, Kings. If, by invoking Trotsky as a conspirator against himself, Stalin can conveniently bump off such Old Bolsheviks in Russia as do actually get in his way from time to time, so much to the good. If there were...
...week. Most important wage basis in a Chinese laundry is the liberal meal of rice, chop suey and tea served at noon, much relished by the industry's Negro employes. After 15 leading launderers had been summoned for wage violation, Louis Wing, president of Wing Moisture Blower Co. and a power in the Chinese Laundry Alliance, pledged the local NRA enforcement officer that the laundrymen would henceforth keep their books in English, hang their codes upside up in a conspicuous place, pay NRA wages...
...harsh arm of the law descended Allen Kellogg Philbrick '35 secretary the Harvard Chapter of the N.S.L. at night when he was apprehended in or act of stuffing anti-Hitler propaganda down a blower in the German cruiser "Karlsruhe" now at anchor in the Charlestown Navy Yard...