Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riding the scorpion of Cuban politics with a charmed life. President Carlos Mendieta last week threw himself to the floor of his automobile as a bomb exploded beside the road. To such unreasoning attacks Mendieta has a stock reply and he made it again last week: "I am ready to resign as soon as Cuba has selected a government to succeed this provisional one over which I preside." Put into office a year ago. Mendieta has scheduled elections for March...
With easy, informal Rooseveltian technique, Mr. Davis dropped his naval depth bomb at a luncheon tendered him by U. S. correspondents. The situation was simple enough. In Tokyo, as everyone knew, the Son of Heaven had pored through his owlish tortoise-shell glasses over the draft text of Japan's denunciation of the Washington Naval Treaty last week and, finding this denunciation good, had sent it to the Privy Council. Only a miracle could stop Japan from scrapping the 5-5-3 ratio and starting a naval race. No miracle man, Ambassador Davis contented himself with a speech well calculated...
...small tax be levied on the use of the word revolution, the proceeds to be given to the defence of, say, such people as Luis Quintanilla, by all those who write the word and never have shot nor been shot at; who never have stored arms nor filled a bomb, nor have discovered arms nor had a bomb burst among them; who never have gone hungry in a general strike, nor have manned streetcars when the tracks are dynamited; who never have sought cover in a street trying to get their heads behind a gutter; who never have seen...
Once soon after the U.S. entered the War, Skipper Claret was taking the Minnehaha to Britain with a heavy cargo of TNT. Several days out of New York he received a radiogram from the U.S. Navy Department to the effect that a bomb hidden aboard his ship was timed to explode that very noon. Captain Claret ordered the crew to make a search drill, did not tell them why. When they failed to find anything, he stood anxiously on the bridge, waited watch in hand. Noon came & went. Nothing happened. Claret had about decided that it was a false alarm...
...Last Day began with a 50-gun salute at 9 o'clock in the morning. Whistles blew and bells rang for a full five minutes throughout Chicago. An aerial bomb broke over the Lagoon as the day's 10,000th visitor pushed through the turnstiles. Two bombs signaled the arrival of the 20,000th. Buglers posted on "L" platforms throughout the Loop blew long & loud at high noon. Schools closed. Early in the afternoon a bewildered grey-haired grandmother was whisked off to the Administration Building where, as the 16,000,000th visitor of 1934, she was presented with...