Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Washington Market unemployed artists found a vacant meat stall, started an art sale. When market patrons showed interest only in one drawing, a nudist colony at play, the artists veiled the picture, sold peeps at a penny apiece. Market Director Aloysius Mallo appeared, took one perquisite peek popped: "Put that away or I'll put you out. That's too hot for my customers, I'll tell the world...
Before the crowd could register and protest they were pushed and driven from a vacant lot where they were massed, into the street a by a group of burly Boston policemen, swinging clubs freely and shouting curses at the fleeing students. Every person in the way of the blue-coated avalanche was threatened by horses' hooves and night sticks. The right of free speech is one of the cardinal rights of a citizen of the United States and if a group of citizens has secured the right to assemble and parade, there is not reason why brawny guardians...
...Denny, 79, of Richmond; and Warren A. Candler, 76, who, a member of Atlanta's Coca-Cola family, received newshawks one night last week in his oldtime white cotton nightgown. Would the conference elect five new bishops? Or for economy's sake would it leave their posts vacant? And would it, as some delegates desired, create a new vacancy by retiring Bishop James Cannon Jr. who had arrived triumphantly in Jackson from Washington where a court had acquitted him of corrupt political practices week before...
Reading between the lines of the list of appointments, one sees at a glance the fingers of the President picking and choosing, searching and finding for Harvard new men to fill the positions that will rapidly become vacant as the older members of the Faculty retire. And not from the mossy folds of Harvard's Alumni Directory are these men chosen but from institutions scattered far and wide over the United States. It is a group of young men who have already proven their ability to make names for themselves in their chosen fields and who have established brilliant records...
...story. The other members of her family circle and many a kindly-remembered friend bulk quite as large in her story. Pastor Unger always came to call when the house was upset, and made confusion worse confounded without annoying anybody. When the parish he had always pined for fell vacant he refused to apply, because he thought another man should have the post, but he gave himself the satisfaction of nearly applying. He appeared at the registrar's office and at the last legal minute lowered his papers till they nearly touched the table, then took them up again...