Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arlington. You should be interested in the home, and oppressed with the whiteness and quiet of the ampitheatre, of the Unknown Soldier, farther up the road. If you journey around to the front and to the tomb, a strange feeling will come over you that makes you want to block the path of the guarding soldier in order to see whether he will walk around you or pass unseen right through your body...
Perfection of this new technique of visible, audible journalism was one problem. How to sell the product against the ice-jam of cinema block-booking was another. Should TIME hand The March of Time over to one of the big distributing systems? Contrary to orthodox advice, TIME decided to take a chance on doing its own distributing through an "independent" distributor, First Division Exchanges, Inc. Vice President David L. Loew of Loew's Inc. broke the ice by being the first to contract for The March of Time for his chain. Other potent chains-Balaban & Katz, Poli-New England...
Thirteen years ago a 29-year-old Cleveland dentist named Joseph E. Klein found himself in Manhattan, idling along Broadway. It was a balmy summer evening. Klein caught sight of a line of people a block long, inching patiently toward an unknown destination...
...Bridge admitted on the stand last week that he had received since that time more than $50,000 from Miss Frick, but maintained that this money was due him for a block of Cerro de Pasco copper stock held in his name by the elder Frick. Never once did Defendant Frick appear in court. Newshawks were not surprised, for no rich woman has ever fought publicity so long or so successfully. Blonde, thin, freckled and 44, Helen Clay Frick inherited her father's executive ability...
...says, "is that I write of life as I want it to be." Since Mrs. Norris follows the dictates of her Church, the heroines in her stories can never get divorces, never practice birth control. As a result of this strict plot limitation, only the death of any who block her heroine's way can lead to a happy ending. And death stalks the pages of Mrs. Norris' novels as grimly and certainly as in a Greek tragedy. Two have to die in Woman in Love. First Tamara's seducer, Mayne Mallory, kills his wife. Then, after...