Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill; Wagner Labor bill. Picked for defeat: The silver purchase bill in its present form, the McLeod bill (see p. 14) and similar measures. To be sure of defeating the silver bill the President placed on his list for passage "some other monetary measure" to help placate the silver block...
...square's centre. Soon a rattling wagon drove up, loaded with red-painted timbers, ropes, boards. Trained like circus roustabouts, a crew of workmen sprang into action. In three-quarters of an hour uprights and braces were screwed together, the pulley strung, platform, trip lever and block slipped into place. A bale of fresh dry straw was ripped open, a zinc-lined wicker casket was unloaded, and Mme Guillotine raised high her thin red arms in the pale Provençal light...
...Strapped quickly to the board, he was pushed beneath the knife. The executioner tripped the lever, the triangular blade crashed down-and jammed, half way down. "Imbeciles!" bellowed Murderer Sarret. "Be quick can't you!" For ten minutes he lay with his head on the block while perspiring, embarrassed workmen argued and tinkered. Executioner Deibler clutched at his weak heart. Then up went the knife to crash down again, successfully this time. Guillotine and crowds were gone and the square hosed and washed before breakfast...
...Larry Fay. loose milk and taxi racketeer who was later murdered. After riding in it for a time. Racketeer Fay presented King Alfred's Excelsior to his old friend Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. who swanked about in it until her death five months ago. To the auction block went the armored Excelsior together with a diamond-studded vanity case, a number of floor lamps and a half-dozen polo mallets. The car brought $80 from a dealer who had an idea that sooner or later he could find...
...wedding was small and restricted to intimate friends. The families of the bride and bridegroom did not attend. The witnesses were Messrs. Merritt and Phelan. After the ceremony the happy couple separated, the bridegroom returning to his bachelor cell block in the jail, the bride to the home of her parents...