Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right, so parking in front of Kirkland-Eliot-Winthrop is a fire hazard. Mr. Reynolds has said so. Since such is the state of affairs I want to know why the chain barrier is raised every night in front of Kirkland House. Twice now friends of mine have looked for someone to take the chain down in order that they could return to their own schools . . . but no one seems to have the keys. If cars cannot get out, how could fire engines hope...
Coward's tale of a divorced couple who meet again on their second honeymoon, fly their new mates, and let fly (between endearments) at each other, once seemed as faintly decadent as chain-smoking. In the Bankhead version, it is as strenuous as football. Miss Bankhead, between moments of dreamy ladylikeness during which she is probably catching her breath, coils, snarls, pounces, crunches her lines, turns throbbing baritone, and in general portrays what appears to be the love of Mt. Vesuvius for a mortal...
...death set off a chain reaction, and a furious tug of war between claimants to the $16,500,000 Patterson estate. When the news reached Washington over the A.P., Times-Herald executives moved fast. The seven who had inherited the paper already faced a fight for it; Countess Felicia Gizycka, Mrs. Patterson's daughter, was contesting the will, charging that it had been obtained by "fraud and deceit" as Cissie Patterson was not of "sound mind" when she drafted it. (There was also talk that the seven heirs were already fighting among themselves, too.) And Porter's personal...
...names for chairman when the balloting for officers began in the region's first caucus. Outgoing regional chairman Lawrence Jaffa 2Div had not at that point filed for reelection in view of his candidacy for national vice-president. His subsequent defeat for the national office set off an intricate chain of political complications...
...Largo is the largest island in the hundred mile chain which ends at Key West, and to it comes a disillusioned veteran (Bogart) to visit his dead buddy's wife and father (Bacall and Barrymore). But the latter's hotel is already populated with a complete selection of mobsters including a boozy gunmoll and the triggerman with a comic book. Embittered Bogart is at first unwilling to do anything about Johnny Rocco and his cohorts, but Bacall renews his faith, and the gunmoll slips him a heater, so the whole affair is resolved in an cerie gun battle...