Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...arrived to complicate matters. A weak heart fortunately carries off the deserter during a slight scuffie with Michael, by this time a budding novelist. This incident is covered over and it is not until 1930 that the illegal marriage of the supremely happy Michael and Mary gets another blow. Highly devoted and avowedly Victorian son David takes a young lady in marriage and the truth must be told. David accepts the situation with considerable grace. The play ends, however, with the police on the point of discovering the lie that Michael used to cover the death of the first husband...
...intended to be the all-inclusive Negro publication. Black and white contributors alike are solicited, but only two famed authors, no original drawings by famed artists of either color were represented in the first issue. (An article by Clarence Darrow, "John Brown-He Who Struck the First Blow," is scheduled for November.) Besides four stories and eight bits of verse there were 16 special features, among them an "exposé" of U. S. rule in the Virgin Islands; an account of primitive African musical instruments; a success biography of Samuel Winningham, watermelon tycoon; notes upon Alexandre Dumas...
...very first voyage started with disaster. While still under tow she ran into heavy weather which thickened rapidly into a hurricane, parted her from her tug and left her riding helpless. The storm whipped her new rigging to shreds. Some gear swinging loose killed her captain. The blow over, she limped back to Liverpool for repairs...
...horn blowing (usually on a conch shell) had almost passed into the limbo of forgotten things when an unusual event served to resurrect it temporarily. On July 4 about 100 students journeyed to St. Johnsbury to participate in a celebration there. They were so noisy on the train and in the town, where they stopped a congressman's speech with boos and ridicule, that the faculty began an investigation. The whole student body took up the protest on the night of July 12 and for four hours pandemonium reigned. Horns were blown continuously, windows were broken and furniture was smashed...
...News of the failure shocked London, where Prince & Whitely did a large arbitrage business, was said to be interested in International Nickel and Brazilian Traction. This, added to the failure of two small London houses, sent prices reeling in that market. It was likewise a blow to Paris. Said La Liberté: "This firm is one of those which recently have been installed in France and have contributed to drain our national savings for the profit of American speculators...