Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rage at the Majority for not giving them assignments to important committees as members of a third party. Instead the Majority treated them as "bastard Democrats," assigned them to committees along with other Democrats at the tail end of the Majority's assignment. Hardly had this storm blown over when the Minority brought on another. The Republicans granted William Lemke, who ran for President on the Union Party ticket, and his colleague from North Dakota, Usher Burdick, committee places as Republicans but deprived them of seniority. One Republican explained the reason to Mr. Burdick: When the Republicans return...
...ordered to blow up Piccadilly Circus by leaving a bomb in the Underground station. Meanwhile, a handsome Scotland Yarder has him under surveillance, also makes eyes at Sylvia. Unable to leave the house without being detected, Verloc sends Stevie to plant the bomb. Unwitting Stevie dawdles, is blown up on the way. Sylvia then stabs Verloc to death, is about to surrender to the police when another bombing brings everything to the obvious finale...
...Back over the tail lie New York and its satellites like a giant Christmas tree blown to the ground, with the lights still burning. Heavy yellow lines mark the trunk and main branches tapering off to isolated pinpoints that try to hold the tip designs, as if the decorators ran short of bulbs...
...present the only drawback to the general use of the radio balloon in place of the airplane is the expense of the apparatus, which, when sent up from Blue Hill, is usually blown out to sea and lost. The average cost of the balloons, weather and radio equipment, and batteries, for one complete unit is about $40, while the average charge to charter a plane for one weather flight...
Unfortunately director Leroy devotes a lot of film to developing this profusion of plot, and the impact of the central idea is lost. Anthony is a tragic figure hounded by misfortune. He is unable to take his bride to Havana because a letter she leaves him is blown away by the wind. Business conditions force him to spend many years in Africa while he loses touch with his wife. When the lovers are finally united she has become so compromised in court intrigue and gossip that she cannot join him in America. The great ambition of the orphan...