Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child of Madame Azai's, a leopard-trainer traveling with a circus in the Middle West. Of his father, Moise, a Dusseldorf banker, Pierre knows nothing but what his mother tells him, but the restless ambition in his blood testifies that he is a chip off the old block. Though he is an accomplished performer under the tents, the circus life does not appeal to him. His mother forgets past troubles in drink; Pierre simultaneously forgets and anticipates his troubles by making love at large. His first serious affair is with Joanna Ryan, a simple country girl. Though their...
...squarely out in the open where the G. 0. P. could view it with undisguised delight. After such words it seemed impossible that the Brown Derby could support Franklin D. Roosevelt in a national campaign. That Al Smith would use every ounce of his party power and prestige to block such a nomination was now a political certainty...
...Teetors come of Pennsylvania Dutch stock and their frugality is legend in Indiana. The Teetor offices are in an old-fashioned frame house on the same block as the factory. Once a representative of a Manhattan investment house went to interview them and broke his pencil while taking notes. He threw it into a wastepaper basket whereupon a Teetor dived for it, remarking, "We can use this around here...
...Banker Morgan resides on Madison Avenue in the block bounded by Park Avenue, 36th & 37th Streets. In addition to the Morgan home, library and museum the block is occupied by: Brother-in-Law Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Socialites Lyman J. Delano and Edwin Wright Sheldon, Drs. Edwin A. Spies and Israel Fleiss, the new Union League Club...
...finds that lack of integration in people's personalities is what makes their stupidity so genuine. In some ways high-grade morons are cleverer than ordinary men; in some ways near geniuses are more stupid. From the same unbalance suffer individuals, mobs, nations, races. With these as building blocks Author Pitkin gradually erects a Katzenjammer Kastle of the human race. One of its foundation-stones is the Pittsburgh citizen, now dead, who encouraged his smouldering pipe with kerosene; a large block of the Kastle's coping is the English nation, which to the Professor's amazement seems...