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Word: blockings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film lies in its objectivity. Passing no judgment on twelve-year-old Giuseppe or his fourteen-year-old friend Pasquale, it traces their development from urchins who cry, "Hey, shoeshine, Joe?" at the passing GIs, through the days when they become hardened inmates of a juvenile cell-block where they have been sentenced for black-market sales...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

Undefeated Yardling skaters successfully hurdled their first major stumbling block yesterday, beating a strong Cambridge Latin sextet 4 to 1, but the Jayvees could not solve the tricky passing of the B.U. Freshman and lost their first game of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV's Bow to B.U. In Hockey Debut; '51 Six Wins, 4-1 | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

...Carson City, Nev., Skelly got a temporary injunction preventing Getty from taking a vote of Mission stockholders on the merger. That was enough to block it through Dec. 23, which Getty and Sunray had agreed would be the deadline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Boiling Oil | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Meanwhile Rex Riccardi, vice-president of the American Federation of Musicians, admitted "I don't believe there is anything we can do against the Band." Previous to Petrillo's January 1 ban against union-made records, the AFM was able to block the Band by boycotting stores which distributed non-Union dises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFM Can't Stifle Band Recordings | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Keystone of the success of the performance was Ann Bollinger, who sang the male lead, Idamantes, with assurance and great ability, and acted the part as well. Even the love duets, usual stumbling-block for male impersonators in the opera, went well at her hands. Naney Trickey was excellent in the part of Ilia, fulfilling particularly well the difficult assignment of holding the stage alone for more than five minutes at the start of the opera. In the role of the sinister Electra, who has the best aria of the piece, a magnificent last-act preface to suicide, Paula Lenchner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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