Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutting such back bench exuberance, the House proceeded to pass the final provisions of Chancellor Chamberlain's budget (TIME, May 8) by a smash vote...
Further blows by which Chancellor Hitler sought to smash all opposition...
...Great South Bay to catch weakfish, with his son Robert. Actor Victor Moore (Of Thee I Sing's Vice President Alexander Throttlebottom) lost control of his outboard motorboat, Embobora II, when its tiller inexplicably came loose in his hand. Down upon him bore a dory. There was a smash-bang amidships and the next thing Alexander Throttlebottom knew he was thrashing about beneath his own overturned craft. He tried to duck out on one side only to crack his head on wreckage, see stars. Down he went again, coming up on the other side. Breathless, and his foot bruised...
...joyful sound to 1,200,000 U. S. wheat growers whose commodity had been picked for the initial experiment under the Farm Relief Act. The consuming public bated its breath to see how this new theory of economic flight would work. Was it to be one more expensive smash-up like the late Farm Board's attempt at price-pegging? Or was it to be really successful in upping commodity prices, stimulating the buying power of agriculture and thereby enriching the nation...
...Avondalc they had to stop to pick up a single passenger- Everett Jason, a long-repressed model husband who was methodically running away from his wife. Martin Knox, criminal lawyer, was bringing a secret star witness back East: red-headed Lena Karelsen, whose evidence would free his gunman client, smash the political ring. Three people were on Knox's trail: Representative Tom Linscott, mouthpiece of the ring, Newspaperwoman Ada Robillard, once Knox's mistress but now Linscott's fiancée, Private Detective Izzard, whose job was to bribe or kill Knox's witness, whichever seemed...