Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restraining the distaff side from "interfering in the conduct of the business." But Lydia was not to be restrained. She pursued a petition for receivership, charged Arthur with mismanagement. Far richer than the Pinkhams, Lydia knew full well she could outbid them should the corporation be placed on the block...
...Sunday: 2-2:30 E. S. T.), The Free Company will get going. The Company's initial venture, characteristically entitled The People With Light Coming Out of Them, is some of the patriotic night-thoughts of William Saroyan, who examines the residents of one U. S. city block, reaches his characteristic conclusion that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, and even better...
Around ten o'clock in the evening when traffic is waning in the Square and the police are standing in groups next to the liquor store, there begins a movement from all sides towards a little wooden door halfway up the block on Boylston Street. Above this door is a small red sign which reads-STAG CLUB. Into this club every night go a wide variety of people bent on one desire,-a nightcap. Or in the case of some, a number of night caps. As you enter the Club you go up a steep set of stairs which branch...
...suffered agonies. Grasping a pencil was for him what tightrope walking is to a normal man. Although he dared not eat in public till he was 18 or 19, he once picked the lock of his cousin's Model-T Ford with a hairpin, drove carefully around the block. In 1918, while he was at college, Earl's mother died and the following year his father killed himself. Instead of going to pieces, the crippled orphan boy matured overnight. Today Dr. Carlson, happily married, spends summers in Manhattan and Long Island, winters in his school at Pompano...
Last week the remnants of Arthur Neville Chamberlain's worldly possessions went on the auction block at his home in Birmingham. Already distributed to relatives and friends were his umbrella, his fishing tackle, butterfly collections, other valuables. With little enthusiasm, women souvenir hunters and secondhand dealers bid for the rest, a motley collection of old juvenile books, pottery, bedraggled furniture. High bid of ?55 was for a piano. A settee from the Chamberlain drawing room went for ?7; an oak bureau with graduated drawers, for "accommodating birds' eggs," for 15 shillings...