Word: blowout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Manhattan to Miami in her wheel chair, plants her in the path of the playboy she is trailing. Risking a 20-year jail turn, Pinks blackmails the crook who slapped her (Barton MacLane) into a one-night loan of a nightclub (complete with Ozzie Nelson), stages a blowout to bolster Her Highness' fading delusions of grandeur. To cap the climax, Pinks appears in full dress, and Her Highness sees him for the first time as he really is. Galvanized by his love (and hers), she dances a few miraculous steps with him only to die, happy...
...Aunt, and ;hat's one picture Rochester won't steal; he won't be in it."). When the party finished, it was 4 a.m., everybody was right, and they all went home. NBC was proud of its show for Showman Benny. It should have been: the blowout alone cost over...
...Sorokin became sickened by the cruelty and irresponsibility of the anarchists and turned counter-revolutionary. He spent fifty days in the Petropavlovskaia Fortress, another word for Bastille, for having "attempted to assassinate Lenin." It turned out that what they thought was a pistol shot had only been a tire blowout, but he was kept in prison for good measure. Writing anti-government pamphlets and articles was not a healthy occupation in Russia in 1918, and soon Sorokin found himself sentenced to death. At the last minute he was saved by a combination of luck and the work of a friend...
...past few years the Council has followed a policy of contributing $300 each year to the Smoker Committee to enable them to bring "name" entertainers on from New York to give the Freshmen a mammoth blowout early...
Died. Robert Carrothers, 18, national junior tennis champion; in an overturned car after a tire blowout on a road near San Diego, Calif...