Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bremer County, Iowa, back in 1906, a tall, gaunt, 42-year-old man named Joseph Newt Finney was blasting rock at his trade of fence-builder. A charge of dynamite went off prematurely. But he lived. He was blown up again in 1910. But when he was hit in 1922, he was blown to the gates of Kingdom Come. While the local doctor was working over him, neighbors remarked dolefully that it was good he was a bachelor and would not leave a widow to grieve...
...worst tempered men who ever lived. As a Brit ish officer he did his blundering best to squash the Yankee farmers in the American Revolution. For his efforts he was finally raised to the rank of a Field Marshal. His fondness for having soldiers flogged at cannon wheels or blown from the muzzle of guns, and later his refusal to issue whiskey to the ranks, forced his retirement as Governor of Gibraltar. Visitors to Quebec still are shown the summer house where his West Indian slaves are supposed to have held voodoo orgies. He drank a great deal. Mounting debts...
...make soap from fat and caustic soda. The only trick is to make the soap strong enough to take off the dirt but not so strong as to take off the skin. Selling soap is another matter. And soap is moulded, colored, perfumed, chipped, flaked, powdered and blown through the end of a nozzle for the sole purpose of making a housewife buy one soap instead of another. Indeed, the defense went further last week, arguing that the form of Ivory Snow, Supersuds or Rinso had little to do with their extraordinary success: it was only the advertising that counted...
...sponsored Repeal. To a lesser degree New York City's New Deal-the Fusion administration headed by fretful, fiery Fiorello LaGuardia-was backed by the clergy. Last Week this support also proved a bitter disappointment to the churches. Mayor LaGuardia was playing with the idea of a full-blown, out-in-the-open, Municipal Lottery...
Orders from Washington sent 30 Navy and Coast Guard boats and a fleet of private yachts scouring Massachusetts Bay for James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President. Nine hours later Sailor Roosevelt and six companions, blown off the course of a Gloucester-Provincetown race, put in at Portland, Me., in the yacht Black Arrow. Said Son James: "I don't know what there was to be upset over. The Black Arrow is as sound as a church. We just had a little blow and we hove...