Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan's next war, according to the Tokyo correspondent of the London Daily Herald which scored a beat on the story last week, Japanese torpedoes of the new type will each contain a volunteer. He will steer the torpedo intelligently to its mark and magnificently blow up with it "as did the Japanese human bomb at Shanghai...
...President was silent, and allowed his lieutenant to engineer a very questionable candidacy which threatened the success of Mr. LaGuardia, behind whom the large part of New York's civilized voters were aligned. Now he is attempting a dignified exit. But he lost a great opportunity to strike a blow for decent municipal government, and if Dr. O'Brien remains in power, New York will remember his failure...
...that violent Comedian Philip Loeb, gives Wintergreen the notion of starting a Blue Shirt revolution when he leads a band of grimy Union Square radicals ("We Seldom Fill Our Stomics, But We're Full of Economics") in song: Down, down with the House of Morgan! We'll blow up the Roxy organ! Down with novelists like Zola! Down with pianists who play "Nola!". . . We will make all tyrants shiver. Down upon the Sewanee River! Happiness will fill our cup When everything is down that's up! With plenty of blue shirts already on hand, the revolution...
...pleasanter chapters in the long and happy career of W. C. Fields's famed unlighted cigar. Baby LeRoy, now 19 months old, has taken up walking since his first picture, A Bedtime Story, but remains incapable of speech. To make him cry, his director orders Baby LeRoy to blow his nose. He has the longest contract without options in Hollywood ; it was signed by his grand mother because his widowed mother, Mrs. LeRoy Winebrenner of Altadena, Calif., was only 16. Actor LeRoy works two hours a day, in seven-minute intervals. At 10:30 a. m. he takes...
...withdrawn formally from the League, the four power peace pact signed by Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy must be the subject of anxious peculation. Mussolini wants to organize a meeting of the signatories at Stresa, but Mr. Henderson has not been slow to see what a tremendous blow at the diplomatic standing of the League this would entail. By blocking action at Stresa, he hopes to force Hitler back into the Geneva parley, but it is highly questionable that this can be done. For Hitler's dominance, like the dominance of any dictator, depends upon the concrete results...