Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the snowy roadway, darkened in irregular patches by the parked automobiles of townspeople who had turned out to help, McGrath looked toward the wing of the grey stone block next to the warden's office, the wing where the rebels were barricaded. He could charge in all right, get across the yard to the main hall maybe, but no further. They would have the steel doors of the hall closed. He studied it until he thought of a plan, then took Father Cleary aside and talked to him. . . . Automobiles for their escape? The gate open...
...cloud of gas sprang out of the gate. They backed up to the wall on the opposite side of the yard, clawed at it with their nails, climbed on each other's backs trying to pyramid over. As shots followed them, they ran inside the south cell block...
...twilight the machine guns on the walls were quiet, still waiting. A thousand people and a regiment of militia were at the gates. An airplane droned overhead. Death came for the rioters across the yard, up into the cell block, past the barricades which they had piled up with mattresses, chairs, beds at corners where they could shoot down a corridor two ways and back up to a stairway. Troopers told a convict named Johnson, who was helping them, to pull a mattress off a barricade. A bullet stopped Johnson when he took his first step. A bullet stopped Captain...
...resolution was adopted urging that Federal authorities be consulted as to "whether there is any redress open in this situation through Federal action." The most conservative suggestion advocated the reduction of newsprint consumption. Shrewd Paul Block, chain publisher (Brooklyn, Newark, Pittsburgh. Toledo, Duluth), expressed his opinion that most U. S. newspapers are now "over-featured," that the elimination of many a feature would do no harm...
...statue of a cat and a woman made into one (called La Femme-Chatte), and a wire ostrich. His taille directe method (the cutting of a sculpture directly from its material without rehearsals in clay- "the releasing of the form from the fundamental block") has caused many a contemporary to imitate...