Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Jungle. One night, early in the Empress Augusta Bay operation, Sergeant Azine's company slipped into the jungle to hold a "road-block," an outpost guarding the approach to the Marines' beachhead. Miasmal swamp and forest hemmed the area. Most of the company bivouacked smack on the trail. Flank units took position in the jungle; they alone might use firearms, because they alone could shoot without danger of hitting their comrades. Marines on the trail were limited to knives, entrenching tools, fists, or any weapon that would do a job silently...
Again for one day the Rockefeller millions swayed the uninitiated: led by the oils, the market nosedived. Then Dillon, Reed & Co., underwriters of a special offering of the big block of shares, made an abrupt, unembroidered announcement that the deal was off "indefinitely." Their only reason: "Mr. Rockefeller is out of town." By week's end, though the averages were back where they started, Wall Street wise guys were still guessing the reasons for the on-again-off-again news. Main guesses...
LUCILLE E. BLOCK...
Following a 20 minute warning, a theoretical enemy air fleet poured over Harvard in an attempt to block America's war efforts and dumped their lethal loads. On the backs of conscientious students who were seeking knowledge in the reading room of Widener came the destruction. Casualties were heavy but the libray's first aid unit composed of the girls employed in the building swung into action and brought relief to the gasping students...
...Hope, as well as all traveling celebrities, Block's prime job is to localize gags so as to take comic advantage of particular localities. Thus, when Hope referred to a North African native woman as "a Lister bag* with legs on," the boys in North Africa howled...