Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when a few months later she gets an urgent letter from the dean, begging her help. Shrewsbury College is being undermined by a mysterious poison-pen campaign, and the college morale is getting shaky. Harriet has not been long in residence when the outbreaks increase in violence. Fuses are blown, windows smashed, obscene decorations and threats are chalked on the conventual walls; a dummy is found hanging in the chapel. Unable to get to the bottom of the mystery, Harriet sends for her savior, Peter Wimsey, only to learn that he has been sent abroad by an anxious Government...
...Scotch warrior set upon destroying the clan of McLaglen instead of the invading English, is blown up by a keg of powder after having dallied with a shepherdess and field ignominiously from the scions of the hated clan. For this he is condemned by his father, the head of the clan of Glouer, to wander about the ancestral castle until he, Murdoch Glouer the ghost, can tweek the beak of a McLagen and force him to admit that any fifty of his clan can be thrashed with ease by a lone Glouer...
...fact that, like Colonel Lindbergh, Condon has chosen to fade from the picture just as national excitement and feeling has reached a fever pitch over the impending execution of Hauptmann. In the case of the Lindbergh family one may understand their desire to wait until the whole affair has blown over before returning to the scene. Their presence here would but aggravate a situation already charged with hysteria and fanned to white heat by a yellow press. At best they could do no good, for it is inconceivable to think that Colonel Lindbergh would have left any unrevealed evidence...
...Robert William Hockman, who has made a persistent hobby of investigating dud Italian air bombs, buried a 970-pounder with the remark, "It's got my name on it, for after the war." Investigating what he took to be another dud at Daggah Bur last week, he was blown to atoms...
...tumbled Testa, Grimm, Wissel and Carpus. Led to their cubbyholes to be patched, they resembled plucked fowl, with splinters projecting from legs and back sides. Next day the crowd watched a greater number of even more spectacular spills. Six riders withdrew from fatigue. By the third night wild jams, blown tires and careless pickups had accounted for 17 spills, numerous cuts, twisted ankles, bruised legs. Not a spoke through the arm but an ordinary stomachache forced Debaets out next day. Pleading the same ailment, popular Italian Franco Georgetti, reputedly the highest-paid performer in the game, withdrew. The triple smash...