Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the wires grew quiet, Count Dalla Torre had leisure and opportunity to confer with Monsignors, Cardinals and even the Most Blessed Father respecting the Grand Prix whizz-smash. Two days later the patient, timeless Papacy made its Most High Opinion known through Count Dalla Torre. Printed...
Last week Stinnes sat in a cell. He did not want to get out. Swindled people wanted to get in−to smash the runt...
Elements precisely such as these produced a magnificent whizz-smash, last week, when Don Alfonso Cocobo, a Grandee of Spain, set out for Biarritz and ended up in a de luxe private suite at the Hospital of Bayonne...
...same afternoon a similar whizz-smash befell H. H. Prince Ibrahim of Egypt and retinue of five, near Montélimar. Death spared all, but bruises raised big spots of black & blue. Tout Paris was inclined to mock at Ibrahim,-at Cocobo, -even at "little girls" all ruefully bruised and tender. Ere nightfall, however, Tout Paris caught breath over a third accident...
However, in the gloaming, two whizzing cars can approach very near a crossroad without becoming aware of each other. Fortunately the Marshal's chauffeur is a talented swerver. He broke the force of the whizz-smash by a cool, adroit skid-swerve. When the man at the wheel turned around with blanched face to explain, he received from Marshal Pétain a little nod and a typical, paternal phrase of encouragement, "Bien fait, mon fils." ("Well done...