Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simply amazed that a section of the public continues to believe the balderdash of such things as the smash up of the Five-Year Plan, and it is amusing to note that invariably the Press which insists that the Five-Year Plan has collapsed is continually denouncing what it calls a Soviet campaign to flood the world with commodities...
Soon M. Laval got thus patriotic guarantee he sought by a smash vote of 500 to 78, the largest majority his Government has won on an important issue this year. But Deputy Henri Tasso arose to croak like Epic Poet Tasso...
...some others are sitting with Diamond Jim and Lillian, a quiet, friendly supper party with wit and wine. Miss Russell asks Miss Bayes to sing. Miss Bayes, reincarnated in electric yet mellow Ruth Etting, arises simply and simply sings "Shine on Harvest Moon." Hardened revue-goers call it the smash song of this summer on Broadway, all Little Shows and Band Wagons notwithstanding...
Boss Crump has long been itching to smash the Horton-Lea-Caldwell combine. The Lea-Caldwell collapse gave him his chance. But he is not popular in rural Tennessee where he is denounced as a "boss of a city machine." To this his henchmen reply: "Why, Ed rode into Memphis from a Mississippi farm at the age of 18 on a bull calf...
...power dive, rolling it over on its back. As plane & pilot flashed low over the grandstands, spectators saw Holman hanging head down by a precarious knee-hold, clutching desperately for the controls. He did not reach them. The plane rocketed to the ground with a screeching smash, bowled over & over, came to rest 150 ft. away. Pilot Holman was obliterated...