Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the U.A.W.'s solemn Vice President John Livingston saw the offer, he dropped his other demands and snapped it up. The union called the 3? annual increase no more than a gesture, but it hailed G.M.'s acceptance of "the principle that prices and profits are a concern of labor...
...mayor, whose principal job is to keep the metropolis' delicately adjusted mechanism from flying apart. In the year of its anniversary, New York's mayor happens to be an ex-policeman and ex-bartender, a onetime Army general named William O'Dwyer. According to an old saw, he is a typical New Yorker in that he was not born there...
...Done Up Nice." It seemed like a lot of money. He never drank-New York was so exciting that it drove his imagination crazy without it-but he "loved life, done up nice." On Saturday nights he dressed in his best and saw the city. He ate at Healy's famed restaurant on 66th Street, and watched "how the dainty people acted there." He saw every show in town. He worked hard to lose his brogue-he was determined not to go on being a gawky country...
...bleak and ancient Brooklyn house. He arrived just as a woman ran out. Her half-crazed husband, with a pistol, had broken through a bedroom window, bent on killing her. The house was pitch-dark. O'Dwyer got a kerosene lamp, pushed it into the room, saw that his quarry had gotten into bed. He dived, yanked back the blankets, grabbed the man's gun hand. It was like "holding the leg of a steer." The man wrestled desperately to bring his weapon to bear. O'Dwyer warned him, then pulled his own pistol, fired once, into...
Henry L. Mencken was very nearly a dead issue, in Baltimore. The daughter of his colored cook fatally stabbed her mother with-an ice pick and then set out for the Menckens'. Presently Mencken's brother August looked out his window and saw the daughter approaching, a bottle in each hand; he talked to her through,, the window, at the same time dialed police, who came on the double, nabbed her, and packed her off to a sanitarium. Mencken slept through everything...