Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally noted, the Senate did not pass the customary resolution of thanks to the Vice President at the close of its session. The reason has just become known. Senator Heflin of Alabama threatened to block the resolution because he was annoyed with Mr. Coolidge for having allowed Senator Lodge to interrupt a speech of his on the British debt bill. Spoke Alabama: " Lodge's point of order took me off the floor and Coolidge sustained the point of order, or, to be more exact, he participated in a rape of the rules of the United States Senate." And Massachusetts...
...latest fleet to arrive is composed of 16 vessels and lies between Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast, and No Man's Land. It supplies New York via Long Island with about 20,000 cases weekly...
...there is a powerful dramatic situation comprised in seven letters. Say " Pasteur " to a Frenchman and he will be in a state of uncontrollable excitement for some minutes thereafter. The life of Pasteur is studied in the lower schools, prayers for Pasteur rise from every church, statues to Pasteur block the traffic. So Sacha Guitry, the voluminous, had a long head start on public approval...
...families of the village. The Deans, once wealthy and influential, have gradually lost their position, the Lattimers on the contrary have gained as the rivals lost, until now old Nathan Lattimer wishes to purchase the last bit of property which the Deans hold, to use for a modern business block. Elizabeth Dean refuses to be driven from her little millinery shop which serves also as a home. To develop complications she is betrothed to John, the unfaithful son and heir of old Lattimer. His efforts to win her love again enrage his father and apparently are doomed to failure...
...attract attention," "Don't block traffic," "Don't argue," "Always obey the police," were the main instructions to pickets. These tactics, in regular use in the garment unions, are in marked contrast to the provocative and often violent methods employed by less educated and intelligently led unions...