Word: padlock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wedlock. In Detroit, Mrs. Madge J. Williams won a divorce on the charge that her jealous husband bought a padlock soon after they were married, locked her in their bedroom every day before going to work...
...lyrically warm, intimate, unregimented spirit that was missing at the Music Hall. The blackface tradition, in one form or another, dates from the colonial days when whites first saw and imitated Negro entertainers. As early as 1769, during a Manhattan performance of Isaac Bickerstaff's comic opera The Padlock, an actor named Lewis Hallam got drunk on the stage in his role of a Negro slave and brought the house down. This eventually led to "the novel, grotesque, original and surpassingly melodious Ethiopian Band entitled the Virginia Minstrels...
...Because the Navy would always have first call on oil supplies, Manhattan's tony Ritz Carlton Hotel will padlock its oil tanks, buy steam for power and heat from New York Steam Corp...
...Nazis succeed. Prime Minister Mustafa El Nahas Pasha's pro-British Government is more stable, has wider popular support than the Government a year ago. The anti-British ex-Prime Minister Aly Maher Pasha has been jailed. Within recent weeks 200 other possible quislings have been arrested, a padlock put on the Cairo Royal Automobile Club, which since the war has been a spark plug of pro-Axis intrigue...
...came back from the war. He was broke. In Minneapolis, where he had once been a police reporter for the Tribune, Captain Billy opened a tavern for ex-soldiers and sailors, called it the Army & Navy Club. When a squad of prohibition-enforcement officers raided the club, put a padlock on the door, Captain Billy went to work in a roadhouse...