Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard dramatic entertainment, the various House plays are certainly the kitchen sink. In comparison, the House plays are poorly mounted, poorly drilled, and poorly east. But therein lies their beauty, the appeal of the dramatic ugly duckling. Somehow the joy of knowing the actors personally, and of watching them blow their lines makes for entertainment which a more professional show cannot offer...
...good twirlers in Junior Ray McCulloch and Sophomore Walt Juszczyk, and the early season games for the Providence lads have been featured by a 6 to 0 whitewash handed out to Rutgers. The two standout Bear pitchers divided mound duties in that game and allowed but one safe blow--and that was of the scratchy variety--in the nine innings they tolled...
...system; if the degenerate type of tutoring is ever to be driven from Harvard, there must be general house cleaning. However, there is a common tendency to make too much of these faults, and they are used to rationalize things for which they are not responsible. The tutoring schools blow them up to huge proportions, using them to explain the most vicious practices. Rich and indolent students give them as an excuse in entirely unwarranted cases. And the fact remains that without the knavery of the Harvard tutoring schools, and without a wealthy, lazy clientele, the tutoring racket would...
That was not enough to blow down 62-year-old Edward Joseph Kelly, six-year Mayor of Chicago and co-Boss of the Democratic machine. Without once using the word "Green" during his entire campaign, Ed Kelly collected 822,469 votes, which were more than anyone of any party had ever polled in a Chicago mayoralty election...
...last year. For everyone ever connected with Boss Pendergast it was a stinker. The indictment blackened some clouds already hanging dark over the Boss ever since Missouri Circuit Judge Allen C. Southern began to root out gambling and vice in Pendergastland (TIME, Feb. 6). The Boss had known the blow-off was coming: last month his nephew Jim Pendergast and Police Chief Otto Higgins tramped up & down Washington trying to find some one to call off Maurice Milligan. The day the indictments came down, Culprit O'Malley attended a three-hour mass in Baltimore. But as righteous Attorney-General...