Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Josephine's glory was not unalloyed; she had failed to smash the record of small Florence Cutler, who completed 29 games to win the title last year...
...demonstration by a Chicago mob, to his training camp at Lake Villa, III. As is usual on such momentous occasions, a dozen motorcycle police "made way" for the celebrity's car at about 60 m.p.h. Hitting a bump, Officer Frank Truba's motorcycle careened into two others-smash. Mr. Tunney leaped from his motor, knelt, helped give first aid. . . . Later somebody asked Mr. Tunney if boxing was conducive to ideals. Said he: "Ideals are congenial...
...held, variously, had 1) landed fair, above Sharkey's high-waisted purple trunks; or 2) landed foul, on or near Sharkey's groin; or 3) inspired Sharkey to hope for a decision of foul, a hope cut short by the referee's silence and Dempsey's terrific chin smash...
...passengers were obliged to hang tight. Rounding one corner everything went stunning, dizzy black. The driver had hit a trolley pole. The ambulance body had flown from the chassis, which wrecked further on. Dr. Poia and Nurse Raitzel came to in dizzy red. Passersby pulled them out of the smash. Badly cut, deeply bruised, they dressed each other's wounds while another automobile was found. No time to lose-a baby was dying of strangulation. . . . They got there in time, operated successfully on small Jane Geissele of Maplewood, slumped into another ambulance with her, returned-duty done...
...what a blessing it would be if there were roads ' "for women only!" Put all the old hens and nice young things and horn-rimmed stickle-backs and back-seat drivers off on a boulevard of their own and let them ball up their own traffic and smash each others' fenders and scream and stick out their tongues to their hearts' delight. Yours for segregation of the impossible...