Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny rope ladder which his father had fixed for him. . . ." But he could not turn on the faucet. "So Stuart's father provided him with a very small, light hammer made of wood; and Stuart found that by swinging it three times around his head and letting it crash against the handle of the faucet, he could start a thin stream of water flowing-enough to brush his teeth in, anyway...
General George S. Patton Jr. sat up in bed for the first time since his neck-breaking auto crash, faced an uncertain future with good humor and good appetite. He moved his shoulders, still could not move his hands or legs...
...Roosevelt's death, Mussolini's, Hitler's, Germany's surrender, UNO's birth, Labor's victory in England, the bomber crash into the Empire State Building, the Potsdam Declaration, the atomic bomb, Japan's surrender, the war-crimes trial, the U.A.W. strike. Hearst's I.N.S. "best ten" list added the Pearl Harbor inquiry...
Died. Ralph Holmes, 30, wartime Army airman, actor brother of Actor Phillips Holmes (killed in a 1942 R.C.A.F. crash), son of Old Trouper Taylor Holmes, second husband of Torch Singer Libby Holman (who was cleared of the 1932 shooting of her first husband, Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds); of barbiturate poisoning (apparently from an overdose of sleeping tablets); in Manhattan...
...people, the decade of the twenties has a world of associations-- the Lost Generation, Greenwich Village, money, alcohol, sex, money, and Crash! You can throw F. Scott Fitzgerald in there somewhere, too. "Billion Dollar Baby" ignores the interesting things about the Jazz Age, and laughs condescendingly, at the length of ladies' skirts, at dance marathons, at speakeasies, and at all the shallow surface of a frenzied...