Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time profits of arms manufacturers, and of the interlocking directorates of the companies in various nations, and of the coy manner in which English arms are used by England's enemies on English soldiers, one feels that the solution to the whole thing is to give every soldier a block of the stock in the major arms company of his country, thus bringing him home rich and satisfying everyone concerned. The authors draw other conclusions; in any case, most will agree that some conclusion to the affair is necessary, to say nothing of unattainable...
...glory, of the Democratic party. There is in further background the Portland postmaster of happy memory, whose protest against Lord Woodrow and demand for back salary piqued the Supreme Court into its historic rumble that the power to appoint connotes the power to remove, though a hundred Pendletons block the path...
Springfield's new building, a cautiously modern limestone block with a facade studded with decorative medallions, was designed by the late Edward Lippincott Tilton and Alfred Morton Githens. Besides its 14 exhibition galleries, its classrooms and offices, the museum boasts a fully equipped stage. On view in its permanent collection last week was a small but extremely well chosen group of those 18th Century portraitists that tycoons loved to collect before Depression: Gainsborough. Lawrence, Raeburn, Reynolds, Romney and Benjamin West, besides Canaletto, Guardi and Goya...
...Private Life of Henry VIII (London Film Productions, Ltd.). When he has Anne Boleyn executed, robustious Henry VIII is in high spirits. He has a drum give the signal the instant her head rolls off the block so that he need waste no time about marrying foolish, pretty Jane Seymour...
When the drum tells him that Catherine's head has rolled off the block, Henry is alone. More from force of habit than anything else, he takes one more wife, Catherine Parr, his children's nurse. She wraps him in blankets, looks disgusted when he dribbles in his beard...