Word: locks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plodded along, and yesterday the world began beating its intrepid way to our door. Someone telephoned from Virginia. "Who said anything about buying football players. . . .?" Someone wrote airmail from Virginia. "A Confederate Flag was stolen . . . We have the honor system down here. We don't lock our doors . . . It was a large Confederate Flag . . ." People came calling. "What happened...
Carey was not intimidated; he fought on, trying to soften some of the union's pronouncements on U.S. policies. In the middle of one skirmish, up jumped a Careyman who said he was an ex-Communist. He shouted that the union "is controlled lock, stock and barrel by the Communist Party. . . . The only decisions which will come out of this convention are those having the stamp of approval of the Party." Retorted "Fitzy" Fitzgerald: "Trash...
...Stomping through the halves of games in the days when Red Grange was carried two miles by jubilant admirers, the Band reached its full growth in the 30's when "Wintergreen" and other Leroy Anderson arrangements filled the Stadium when the teams weren't trying. Perfecting its half-time lock step, the Band could soon wind itself through 33 letters in 7 1-2 minutes while simultaneously playing a medley of the visitor's songs. Dormant during the war, the Band reappeared last year doing 128 letters throughout the season, and it was clear that the musicians who could also...
...night last week, the Library of Congress staged the biggest show in its history. Its collection of Lincoln papers, given to the Library by Lincoln's son Robert on condition that they be kept under lock & key until 21 years after his death, was about to be opened...
...House's action did not mean that it had bought the Administration foreign aid program lock, stock & barrel. But it did demonstrate a growing interest in the stock. The House was ready to take another step-to send a 19-man House committee to Europe to have a look for itself and study the lock and barrel...