Word: bladeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chain Publisher Paul Block, 63, lifelong advertising salesman, who bought and sold papers he scarcely had time to get acquainted with; in Manhattan. Nearly a score of dailies from Brooklyn to Los Angeles passed through his hands, but he wound up with three: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Toledo Blade, and the Toledo Times. He gave Hotchkiss School its chapel, endowed a $100,000 foundation at Yale to study the relation of newspapers to public affairs...
...Paul Block papers (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Toledo Blade, Toledo Times): "Whatever the risk of war, the risk of England's defeat is more serious...
Gallstones. About one-third of all elderly women have gallstones. If a patient suffers recurring attacks of colic-sharp pains in the right ribs and under the right shoulder blade-she had best have her gall bladder removed. There is no method of dissolving gallstones, no medical treatment to cure colic, no diet which will heal a scarred sac. Once her gall bladder is removed, a woman can get on very well, provided she follows a bland diet...
...baroque art and Liszt, author of a distinguished travel book (Roumanian Journey) and much verse. Edith usually dresses like a medieval prioress, writes sharp, hard, colorful poetry that gives the impression of viridian green and Chinaman's-heart's-blood laid on in arabesque by a razor blade...
...died down, this Harvard gentleman made sure that the legality of the liquor racket wouldn't be carried to extremes, by clipping the rather dirty wings of beer baron Dutch Schultz. By now, people in Jersey, (where the Judge was operating) were prepared for anything from this legal razor, blade-and they were prepared to like it. Well, the next objects of Clark's attention were the toes of "I am the law" Hague. They got stepped on. Result: "New jersey was practically, reincorporated into the United States...