Word: blows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Philemon Smallwood, C. S. A. (dpy Walter C. Kelly, "The Virginia Judge" of vaudeville and the corrupt Congressman of Both Your Houses). Invalided in Washington, General Smallwood is as crooked a politician as "Ace." Their fire-eating ante-bellum debates helped start the hostilities. It is a hard blow to both when the first honest deed of their official lives is prematurely discovered, balked. But rapidly reverting to type, each prepares elaborate lies to cover the blunder, part as bitter enemies as they ever were. "Sign it Burdette!" cries "Ace" to his secretary, who has just finished taking...
...alcohol has relieved him of his scanty scruples. The ship turns out to be the vessel of a group whose every effort is bent upon keeping the powers at sword's edge, a sort of munitions-makers' fairy godmother. At the moment this virtuous band is plotting to blow up the Panama Canal and blame it on the Japanese, so that the America-Japanese war will not take so long in coming about. In her efforts to return to her native land our poor Marie becomes hopelessly involved in the machinations of these sons of Mars and is saved from...
...mining engineer, Lieut. Caetani calmly proposed to blow off the entire mountain top. "Let's get under their seats," he said, "and blast." With 80 picked miners Prince Caetani drove a tunnel nearly half a mile long into the living rock, so quietly that the Austrians noticed nothing. Five tons of nitroglycerin were tamped into the galleries. On the night of April 17, 1916 the Engineer Prince was ready...
...Berengaria that supercharged torpedo of Japanese diplomacy, Rear Admiral and Special Envoy Isoroku Yamamoto. It is no secret whatever in Tokyo that the Japanese Admiralty has spent most of the summer priming Admiral Yamamoto to blow up the London negotiations unless Japan gets every single thing she wants...
...household word is Scovill because the company deals largely with other manufacturers. It makes parts for radios, watches, clocks, electric fixtures, razors, surgical instruments, automobiles, oil burners, typewriters, umbrellas, overalls, suspenders, locomotives, bicycles. Its own line, beside buttons, includes pipes, rods, sheets, plumbing fixtures, electric motors, blow torches, bolts, screws, nuts, food-mixers, condenser tubes, soda fountain equipment, vacuum cleaners, divers' helmets, 80% of the world's tire valves, 55% of all U. S. pins...