Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flag in the British Empire went to half staff; the honeymooning Duke & Duchess of Gloucester canceled a shooting trip; peers put away their golden coronets, peeresses their tiaras and Parliament was opened in drab mourning. For the first time British historians could remember since the Guy Fawkes plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 those decorative warriors, the Yeomen of the Guard, did not make last week their traditional search of the cellars of Parliament before it convened to make sure that no explosives had been hidden there. Parliament opened quietly with the Lord High Chancellor, Douglas McGarel Hogg...
...Stalino two assistant foremen, a checkweigher and an electrician were arrested for the murder of a fast-working Stakhanovite who had peached on them to the Bolshevik labor boss as "opposed to Stakhanovism." In a nearby mine a worker shot at his Stakhanovite mine manager, missed. Most spectacular blow against Stakhanovism is supposed to have been struck by Engineer S. Plotnikov, a member of the Communist Party up to the time of his arrest. According to the Soviet Press, Engineer Plotnikov became so vexed at Chelyabinsk by the boastful uppishness of the local Stakhanov gang that he ordered the fastest...
...were hired to blow the difficult wind instruments at first but now all 80 players are women and for six years the conductor has been graceful, blonde Ebba Sundstrom, who is determined that the orchestra shall sound professional. Conductor Sundstrom has worked at music since she was a child on a farm in Lindsborg, Kans. At 7 she played the violin, at 13 she organized a trio, played in hotels and theatres. She was organist and choir director at Grace Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, when she met a young Swedish dentist as blonde as herself, became Mrs. Victor Nylander...
...feverish and pulse-quickening serious rumor of the week: His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have been warned that if Proposal 4A is put into effect, Benito Mussolini will say "Yes" to the 125 fanatical young aviators who have asked whether they may strike a suicidal blow for Italy by diving 125 planes each loaded with a bomb into 125 ships of the British Royal Navy which now has some 200 ships in the Mediterranean...
...Biggest blow of its career was struck at ASCAP last week from within its own organization, when four of its publishers and their subsidiaries resigned their memberships. Together the four claim to have published some 40% of the music most in demand. They are Harms, Inc., M. Witmark & Sons, T. B. Harms Co. and Remick Music Corp., all subsidiaries now of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. which announced that it would hereafter do its own dickering...