Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When one yard cop, who attempted to "break it up, boys!" was bleed down, he called one of his cohorts. The Puritans on the roof thereupon threw gallons of water on them...
...hero of Juárez, who does not appear in it, is James Monroe, fifth President of the U. S. and promulgator of the doctrine that the U. S. wants no foreigners in its back yard. Juárez begins when that doctrine is challenged by cocky little Napoleon III (Claude Rains), who thinks he can set up a Mexican Empire while the U. S. has its hands full with the Civil War. Napoleon's instrument is a foppish but well-intentioned Habsburg archduke, Maximilian (Brian Aherne). Through an engineered plebiscite, Maximilian and his wife Carlota (Bette Davis...
...hook-and-ladder fire trucks, six fire engines, two police cars, and the fire chief streamed through the Yard at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon to answer the frantic alarm that "Weld Hall has gone at last...
...fire chief exclaimed, discovering that the fire had been put out ten minutes before his men had arrived. After prying in the charred wood with a crowbar for several minutes, the chief led his two look-and-ladders, six fire engines, and the two police cars out of the Yard...
...What building are those over there?" inquired her chauffeur, pointing toward the Yard. When Grout convinced him that it was Harvard and not Yale, the chauffeur seemed atunned...