Word: smashers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a faux pas was impossible last week because the Penhoet Shipyards, sagacious builders of the superliner, had provided an automatic bottle-smasher, needing only to be tripped by Mme Lebrun. The christening bottle was a monster, a triple magnum holding six quarts, "Largest Champagne Bottle in the World...
...Majesty the Empress a Satsuma. Last week Japanese, always inclined to read the present from the past, discussed the new Cabinet and the current Japanese crisis in terms of the 31-year-old Emperor's career, recalled that he has always been in his quiet way a precedent smasher and that the first major precedent he smashed was to marry for love outside the strict circle of Japan's Five Eligible Families...
...lines. For both white and red men, trapping is the only livelihood in winter. Robbing trap lines is a crime, though understandable, but these traps were not robbed. Somebody was smashing snares and deadfalls, scattering the bait so hungry animals could eat it in safety. Tracks of the trap-smasher were followed to Johnson's cabin. Indians raised the alarm, said...
...Catholic auspices;* 2) President Alcala Zamora resigned in protest and 50 pious Basque and Navarra Deputies marched out of the National Assembly shouting "Long live Christ the King!"; 3) Parliamentary leaders gathered jabbering in the lobby, decided that War Minister Azana ought to be President, told Speaker Julian ("Bell Smasher") Besteiro of their decision...
...played Haines in four tournaments this year, and that Haines had won three of the matches. He started hitting hard, saving his new stroke till he got the match moving. He got ahead of Haines and switched to a soft game. It was a mistake. A devastating smasher, and the best half-volleyer among U.S. amateurs, Haines turned Wolf's gentle, strategic shots into points for himself, and caught up fast. Young Wolf seemed to forget everything Dufton had told him except the new stroke. He whaled the ball the way he did out of doors last year when...