Word: wooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Singles--Swartz (Y), defeated Blackmer (H), 6-2, 6-4; Fischel (Y), defeated Aldrich (H), 0-6, 6-4, 6-3; Swanson (H), defeated Wood (Y), 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Maxwell (Y), defeated Murphy (H), 6-4, 10-8; Thompson (H), defeated Keeley (Y), 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; Flug (H), defeated Brady...
...booty-bulging castle, listening to stock exchange quotations, while his wife has her portrait painted. Upon hearing that timber prices are rising in England, the alert army wife gives the general a shrewd tip: "Have the Germans chop down their forests around the city and ship the wood to be sold in England. What have you been appointed a general for if you can't make...
Today's Fun. Seen together, her pictures looked extraordinarily alike in tone and content. Thinly painted in tempera and oil glazes on pressed-wood panels, they all had the vague shimmer of reflections in a forest pool. Their subject was almost invariably girls, mainly girls who spend their nights in Brooklyn and Queens rooming houses and their days working in the garment lofts, offices and novelty factories around Manhattan's Union Square, where Bishop has her studio...
...fire-gutted tenement. As the camera stalks hunter & hunted about the shadowy ruins, the suspense is drawn out to a fine edge. An intelligent sound track, all ears, brings it to a razor sharpness. When Bobby is finally cornered on a giant rafter, overhanging the gaping cellar, the rotted wood starts giving way. What follows is a breathless, well-executed collaboration between lens and microphone...
That night Rayburn & aides went to work on Southern Democrats, pleading for votes against the Wood bill so that the Administration-controlled House Labor Committee would at least have a chance to frame a new law. They pointed out that passage of the Wood bill would be a complete surrender to the Republican minority. Some Southerners listened. Next day, ten who had voted for the Wood bill somersaulted and voted against it. It was breathtakingly close. Down went the Wood bill by a hairline vote...