Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kind but rough and tought diamond to win the girl from Pat O'brien will probably stay at Warner Brothers and make more pictures . . . but Waraner finds him a reliable Irishman for other assignments too... and Warners rescued him from the oblivion he seemed headed for after his smash film debut in Howard Hughes' Front Page...
Everything being ready for the Grand Smash, faultless politeness constrained Admiral Nagano merely to tell journalists that he had written a letter withdrawing Japan from the Conference at 6 p. m. This letter was not delivered to the British Admiralty until about midnight, by which time the Naval Conference had most enjoyably dined & wined with the Lord Mayor of London and the Prince of Wales...
...Admiral had been sent from Tokyo to smash the Conference and he was about to smash the Conference. By so doing he would incur for Japan the supreme risk that her defiance might stir up the Great Powers to do something at last to check the onslaught Japan launched in 1931 when she thumbed her short nose at the Briand-Kellogg Pact, made war her national policy and, withdrawing from the League of Nations in 1933, continued to advance upon China in a predatory campaign still highly successful. Perhaps there was no real risk of the tabby cat powers doing...
...Partner Hewitt married Peter Cooper's only daughter, Sarah Amelia. Vastly successful in business, Abram Hewitt built the first U. S. open-hearth furnace, manufactured the first U. S. steel of commercial value, directed Cooper Union for 40 years as secretary of its board, helped smash Tammany's Boss Tweed and, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in 1876 led the fight to establish Samuel J. Tilden's claim to the Presidency. Abram Hewitt's career reached its climax in 1886 when, in a rousing personal victory, he beat Candidates Henry George and Theodore Roosevelt...
...stopped at Cottage City, a mile beyond the District of Columbia boundary. Orel Leen, a member of his office staff, guided the sightless Senator across the street to a store. They were on their way back when another car came zipping out of the dark, ran them down. Smash! Broken glass littered the pavement as Driver Lester G. Humphries stopped his car, was arrested for reckless driving. Mr. Leen lay at the side of the road with a fractured skull. Senator Schall lay unconscious in the centre of the highway with a shattered leg, a battered head, internal injuries. Three...