Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...croppers and unemployed factory workers, criminal assault, black and white "naturals," and childbirth in a claypit. In what now seems to be settling down into a serious contest between him and the other most eminent fiction writer of the South, William Faulkner, Mr. Caldwell has here delivered the latest blow. He has equalled if not outdone himself and his rival in inventing novel and repellent forms of rape and violent death. In the title story one of the characters amuses himself by cutting off dogs' tails, of which he keeps a large collection in a trunk. As a fitting accompaniment...
Franklin Roosevelt was considerably jolted this week when the nine black-robed Justices of the Supreme Court, with unexpected unanimity, declared the Blue Eagle as dead as a slaughtered chicken (see p. 13). But this great blow to the New Deal's most enthusiastic experiment was not as personal as the blow which the nine Justices, with equal unanimity, dealt at the authority which he assumed in the days of his White House honeymoon...
...since its founding. The child crawled on the Museum's floors before he could walk, squinting observantly up at the walls. His nickname was first "Rabbits," because he raised them, then "Piney," because his hair bristled. In 1907 he went to Paris, saw a Matisse painting, "felt a blow between the eyes." He began to fight the battle of modern art, helped organize the famed Armory Show of 1913 and in the excitement married a big, handsome Gerbookseller. While his 20-year-old son goes to Bowdoin College to prepare for production work in the Cinema, Father Pach indiscriminately...
...starter a small dynamite cap explodes, which sets fire to a quantity of powder. This burns in a constricted place and gives a high whistling noise like a fire in the gas line. Great quantities of smoke pour out, the victim decides the car is going to blow up and makes his preparation to leave just as the final explosion lets...
First French benefit from the new alliance came last week when Stalin strongly indicated to French Communists that for them now to sabotage the French military machine is equally a blow against Communist Russia...