Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lampposts were blown down, trees uprooted and their greenery set afire, buildings collapsed and streetcars & their occupants were blown to bits. Correspondent Matthews set about getting something to eat during a lull between raids, continued to observe morale in the restaurant. "I did not find it amusing," he cabled afterward, ''to see a great hulking fellow who was eating with his girl jump up and beat her to the kitchen by three strides as the next raid began...
...Chiang Kai-shek's capital at Hankow with Sian, capital of Communist-held Shensi and source of Soviet supplies coming in from Outer Mongolia. The Japanese force cut this link at Szeshui last week, but made no further advance after crossing the river. Chinese were reported to have blown up dikes along the Yellow River, flooding the countryside and thus blocking Japanese mechanized forces...
Venetian. At the Metropolitan, the Old Master of the year continued to make news after a triumphant first U. S. exhibition last month at the Chicago Art Institute.* This was the 18th-Century Venetian, Giambattista Tiepolo, a full-blown baroque virtuoso far removed from the devout art of the Middle Ages. Not half so rich in paintings as the Chicago show, the Metropolitan's boasted more of Tiepolo's round, rapid sketches and one of his ceilings, famed for the azure into which he tossed swirling goddesses, angels and garlands of cherubs to float upward, bottoms down...
...hours after handsome Anthony Eden resigned as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Glasgow haberdashers marked down the Eden-style black Homburg from ?1 to four shillings. In London's West End, however, it still held its own. "It has too much character," said one Mayfair hatter, "to be blown off by a political breeze...
...week-end are fairly good especially in northern New England, according to latest reports. Pinkham Notch has 28 inches of snow with a one inch new powder surface, Bartlett 20 inches, Intervale 20, Kearsarge and Conway 17 each. Some of the slopes are reported as slightly wind-blown but the trails are said to be excellent...