Word: smashingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When Maurice E. McLoughlin, the California Comet, came blazing across the U. S., lawn tennis followers saw for the first time what efficiency could be displayed by a player who never, if he could help it, took a ball on the bounce, but rushed for the net, to volley, smash, chop. Many lively Californians since have endeavored to maintain their state's tradition for skill at the net. Last week, a youth named Edward G. Chandler of the University of California won the Intercollegiate Tennis Championship from Cranston Holman of Stamford...
...strangest hulks shipwright ever fashioned stood in the Camden, N. J., ways: It was about to be loosed into the water.* Lest it should race across the estuary and smash into Philadelphia, a gigantic cable was stretched across the water off the New Jersey shore. Twenty airplanes careened lazily from side to side, high in air above the hulk, as if welcoming a foster-mother...
...attacked and abused by vile language is making a rendezvous for crime, when I hear the arch-bully exclaim that no one would dare to report him to the police, but myself (Engel). Yes, I am different and I have repeatedly proven it. I do report a bully. I smash his head in defense of myself and if he is a desperado or a madman, I shall kill him without the slightest remorse. Most cordially yours...
...ragged entertainment called The Undercurrent. He plays the part of an irascible old mine owner who won't increase his miners' wages, refuses to let his daughter marry the man she loves. A little past the middle of the play, he is hit on the head in a taxi smash. He suddenly changes places? mentally?with the miners and the girl. Coming out of this strange cerebral revolution, his nature shifts. The miners get their money and the girl her man. The play is not recommended...
...book of memoirs published in Russia by Sergius Tschoudnovsky was described the last moments of Admiral Kolchak and his able comrade, General Pepeliayev, the two leaders of the Siberian White Army that tried to smash the might of Bolshevism. Tschoudnovsky, as Chairman of the Investigation Committee, was commissioned, in 1920, their executioner...