Word: barred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the staff had finished the night's work, they gathered in nearby Lorenzo's, the office pub, to drink things over. They talked loudly, drank vigorously, and tried to laugh often. When City Editor Wayne Adams walked behind the bar for a moment, someone cheered: "Look-you've got a job already." But for all the forced jokes they felt disillusioned and lost. In a few hours, the wake was over; the lights went out at Lorenzo's for the night, and at the Star for good...
...first glance, the boyish-looking, new guest conductor was a dead ringer for Frankie: wispy, wire-thin, sallow-cheeked and dark-haired. But when 28-year-old Guido Cantelli stepped to the podium and rapped his baton, the jokes stopped. By the time Guido had driven them through bar-by-bar rehearsals of Hindemith and Haydn without looking at a score-gesturing and singing fa-sol-la-tis to make up for his lack of English-musicians were murmuring about "terrific talent...
...Bench & Bar. In Salt Lake City, the City Commission ruled that before City Judge Marcellus K. Snow could assume office, he would have to pay up his 37 back parking fines. In Harlan, Ky., Special Circuit Judge Cleon K. Calvert charged himself with public drunkenness, promptly ordered a $10 fine...
There is one employer who always checks the record, and that is the United States Government. The fact that a girl was once a member of a "subversive" organization would probably bar her from a federal job, even if she had joined the group for only one term...
...years, Panayiota finally found a lawyer who would listen to her. Last November, in Nicosia's green-walled district court, Panayiota faced Zekia Bey, the judge. Nervously she displayed photographs of her dead Scot lover: Blue Eyes clearly looked like him. Then swarthy Mrs. Shatis stepped to the bar. She cried hysterically that Blue Eyes was hers...