Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Texan Howe got some more publicity by attacking Texan White on a question of prime importance to all professional Texans, namely: What does a Texas rattlesnake do when you go to blow its head off with your six-shooter? Texan White had written, old-style, that the snake will follow the movement of the gun-muzzle so closely with its head that you cannot fail to hit the snake's head when you pull the trigger. Texan Howe experimented, fired many a shot at many a Crotalus adamanteus atrox, missed their heads again and again, then angrily...
...ability and of intellectual achievement. No one can suppose that it will bring a leveling of students to a uniformity in interests outlook, breeding, the conventional standards of society. But it must lead to a broadening of association and acquaintance, and we may hope it will give the last blow--if indeed one is needed--to the silly notion that "C" is the gentleman's grade...
...Reporting fact, not passing judgment, was TIME when it told how courageous Father O'Neill carried Death (50 Ib. of dynamite) to blow a hole in Cellhouse No. 3 so that militia might enter and suppress the rioting convicts...
Observers were mildly amazed that any group of antiFascists could have grown so bumble-headed as to plot the assassination of Crown Prince Umberto as a blow against Fascism. For years it has been rumored that H. R. H. is the member of the Italian Royal Family most estranged from Dictator Mussolini. Most antiFascists regard the Crown Prince's name as the best one around which to rally a revolution which should "deliver" Italy, yet preserve the Throne. Commonly in antiFascist circles the tale is told that H. R. H. once sent II Duce a challenge to duel...
...died last month (TIME, Oct. 14), was given a whole page to himself in the Illustrated London News, including pictures of his death mask, a photograph of his neatly dressed corpse in its coffin (the dead hands holding flowers) and a tribute saying that his death "was a great blow not only to Germany but to Europe as a whole...