Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military man, the loss of Czecho-Slovakia was bad enough; to Churchill, the political moralist it was frightful. Coming after the abdication crisis (when Churchill had attacked Prime Minister Baldwin, been hauled down in the House), the Munich pact unnerved him as the World War never had. "The blow has been struck!" he cried, and as he harped steadily on its enormity, brooded over Britain falling into the power orbit and influence of Nazi Germany," the stories that Winston Churchill was passing out of public life flourished in the first post-Munich relief...
Only since 1863 has Thanksgiving had a consistent year-to-year day, but football coaches were furious: 30% of them had games scheduled Nov. 30 which would now play to ordinary weekday crowds. Calendar-makers took the blow quietly except for Elliott-Greer Stationery Co. of Amarillo, Tex., which happily discovered it had designated Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving Day by mistake. Alf Landon sounded off in Colorado as follows: ". . . Another illustration of the confusion which his impulsiveness has caused so frequently during his administration. If the change has any merit at all, more time should have been taken in working...
...Asia the effects of the treaty might be two antitheses. It might send Great Britain into the arms of Japan, in an effort to stop the Axis on the Pacific, having been forced to retreat 4,000 miles westward from the Vistula. Or it might blow Britain all the way out of the East if Japan and Russia patched things up and the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis was relabeled to read Rome-Berlin-Moscow-Tokyo...
...often the most profitable. Today General Staffs have the map of Europe spread before them and are playing a shell game with one another. Instead of three shells, however, they have half-a-dozen, each covering one of Europe's theatres of war. Not till the big guns blow the shells to bits will anyone know under which shell lies...
...hurricane blew everybody off Cape Cod, it could be repopulated overnight by the fictional offspring of Joseph Crosby Lincoln. Last week Author Lincoln, collaborating with his nonfictional offspring Freeman, proved that not even a hurricane can stop him from writing about Cape Cod, used the big blow of 1938 merely as curtain raiser for The Ownley Inn. Before the final curtain, when the stolen New England Primer (value: $60,000) is recovered, and broken-nosed Puss Clarke makes up with his ex-fiancée, a full cast of summer folk and Down East worthies have sauntered across the stage...