Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also must have been a stunning blow to 560 men of a certain Northern regiment, whose time being expired, refused to stay over for an emergency. Three hundred from the same regiment did stay and, simply because of this, the whole shebang, goers and stayers, were bemedalled...
...breezes that blow year in, year out across the vast grassy plain that is Texas, have for 13 years been murmuring to the bones of Texas' dead heroes that when this great state, a land of great men who will ever do great things, should become 100 years old, the nation would be treated to a memorial celebration that it would not soon forget. True to that promise, up and down the nation for weeks, with a white horse called Texas and his son Jim Boy, 6, the present Governor of Texas, "Jaunty Jimmy" Allred has been traveling...
Last week the doctors at Coronado feared that this proposal would become law. They foresaw more financial troubles for private hospitals and for themselves, poorer medical service by & large for the State's inhabitants. But they could agree on no procedure to avert the blow...
...preview dinner in Rockefeller Center's 65th story Rainbow Room, New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia rounded up a roomful of bigwigs, including New Jersey's Governor Harold Hoffman. Beefy Governor Hoffman promptly proceeded to put the show on the front pages by flooring with one blow a spindly Hearstling named Lou Wedemar who heckled him about his handling of the Hauptmann case. After this preliminary bout the bigwigs were taken to look at the show. Advertised as a "representative cross-section of American art," it was really a representative cross-section of American taste. Organized...
...Jackson, looking his 70 years, adjusted his bifocal spectacles, described his method of repairing a throat crushed and puckered by a blow, strangulation, fall, crash or gash: "We have gone to the iron foundry for mechanical aid in treating such cases. Iron is cast through the use of sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that...