Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sport was clay-pigeon shooting. The President was presented with some handsome shotguns and a set of traps for whirring out the dark four-inch discs with yellow circles on their backs. The secret-service men showed him how to stand at the butt, get set, cry "pull!" and blow the sailing "pigeons" to dusty smithereens. There was also baseball-the opening game of the annual tournament of the Head-of-the-Lakes semiprofessional baseball association. The field was beside the railroad yards in Superior. Long freight and ore trains trundled by constantly. President Coolidge threw in the first ball...
Bear. Banker Traylor's warnings have been remembered in the last few months. Since September, Coolidge prosperity has suffered many a blow. One by one, market operators have noted these ominous signs...
...Yard, that when her inquisitor, Inspector Collins, appeared before the Extraordinary Tribunal, it was hoped by thousands of Britons that he would turn out to be an inexperienced or at least an exceptionally bad inspector. The nation's confidence in its police was well-nigh shattered at one blow when Inspector Collins established that he is an officer of 32 years' experience, 93 times complimented by Judges from the Bench for his efficiency, and never before complained against by police or public...
...desperate emergency created by the slithering fall of the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). Today the paper franc is good as gold; and French politicians have not lost the art of quarrelling. For example, Deputy Oran Molle doubled his fist, in the Chamber lobby, last week, and aimed a blow at Deputy Freissineng, who nimbly ducked, remarking: "Merci, mon ami! But today it is too hot to fight." Soon all Deputies trooped in to hear the Prime Minister set forth the policies of his Cabinet and appeal for a general vote of confidence, which, if refused, would mean his fall...
Strolling home with his empty rifle José Marinat saw his mother standing in the doorway and felled her with a single blow. The sight of her quiet body seemed to penetrate at last into his maddened brain. Throwing away his rifle he plunged again into the woods, wandered aimlessly for two days, was hunted down and shot dead by efficient agents of the famed Spanish Guardia Civil...