Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adenoids and head colds affect few people so unpleasantly as they do those who blow on wind instruments. At a Philharmonic concert in Manhattan last week German Bruno Jaenicke, reputed the world's greatest French horn player, huffed, puffed & snuffed valiantly through the first two movements of the Concerto which Richard Strauss wrote for his horn-playing father. Then, exhausted, Horn-Player Jaenicke left the stage. Conductor Erich Kleiber strode after him, but no amount of persuasion would return Bruno Jaenicke to his snuffling misery. An unprecedented announcement was made: the Philharmonic was unable to finish a number...
...disturbing the peace, there is a shot of little Cooper sticking out his underlip and wrinkling his eyes. In jail, Beery decides to send his son to live in respectable surroundings with his mother. Cooper is unwilling to go. To make him less unwilling, Beery gives him a blow across the face, then smashes his own hand against the side of his cell. Even this mistreatment does not discourage little Cooper. Presently he is back, muttering, "Aw gee!" with sniveling, or sometimes gay, affection. Finally there arrives Beery's comeback as a fighter. He shuffles into the ring...
...this year's team, but the undergraduates display a bewildering indifference regarding its fate. Columbia's eleven has brightened the New York horizon by winning a few games, but the editor of the student daily has mitigated the resultant joy by charging the team with professionalism. The worst blow of all, however, has come from that foremost glorifier of the gridiron, the movies. In a current film, "Touchdown," the central figure is an ambitious young coach who cripples a player for life in order to win a game, and then, for the conventional happy ending in an unconventional form, loses...
...ball hit the cross-bar and Butterworth caught it, and was thrown back of the goal by Waters, thus making a safety. This did not count, as Referee Reviard had thought it best to blow his whistle just before Butterworth fell...
...Sage bows and makes his exit. The trumpeters tremble as they blow farewell. Heels click as attention is called. A toast! Bottoms up! "Aye, he's off for Manchuria." Other scores: Fordham 13 Bucknell 0 Southern Methodist 14 Navy 6 Notre Dame 14 Southern Cal. 13 B. C. 26 B. U. 0 Northwestern 20 Iowa 0 Cal. 13 Stanford 6 Tulane 34 Sewance 0 Lehigh 19 Lafayette...