When describing a man who committed suicide... “His life was the block he went missing from”——http://www.smh.com.au/act-news/missing-yass-man-leonard-watkinson-found-dead-20151108-gkty0z.html What does this sentence mean?

What does " Blank-Drawer" mean? "Flip-Floppers, Blank-Drawers, and Under-Thinkers: Which One Are You?" Thank you.

What does "When that Depression-era fair shuttered" mean? "The Ford Rotunda was circular in an automotive manufacturing kind of way. It was shaped like an enormous set of grooved transmission gears, one fitting neatly inside the next, rising first 80 then 90 then 100 then 110 feet, to the equivalent of ten stories. Virtually windowless, with its steel frame and exterior sheath of Indiana limestone, this unusual structure was the creation of Albert Kahn, the prolific architect of Detroit’s industrial age. Kahn had designed it for the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago, where Ford’s 1934 exhibit hall chronicled the history of transportation from the horse-drawn carriage to the latest Ford V-8. When that Depression-era fair shuttered, workers dismantled the Rotunda and moved it from the south side shore of Lake Michigan to Dearborn, on the southwest rim of Detroit, where it was reconstructed to serve as a showroom and visitors center across from what was then Ford Motor Company’s world headquarters." Thank you.

What does "the back beat hypnotic" mean? "The camera swooped inside a Chrysler 200, leathered warm and black, and there was Marshall Mathers, the singer known as Eminem, cruising down Woodward Avenue in his hometown, city of my birth, the back beat hypnotic as he approached the Fox Theater and stepped from the sedan and past the golden marquee and walked down the aisle toward a black gospel choir, robed in red and black, their voices rising high and hopeful into the darkness from the floodlit stage." Thank you.

What does "coming down from the crown" mean? That year, the recently retired Admiral of the British Navy, John Arbuthnot Fisher, wrote Churchill about rumors of new honorifics potentially coming down from the crown. Specifically, per the OED, he wrote: “I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis— O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)—Shower it on the Admiralty!” What does "new honorifics potentially coming down from the crown" mean?

What does "throw her down" mean? “If a woman’s clothes should catch fire, let her roll herself over on the ground; if a man be present, let him throw her down, if necessary, and wrap her in a rug, coat or anything at hand.” From the article , published in 1877. Thank you.The article is "How to escape from fire",published in 1877.

What does "chair in government/business,University of Texas" mean? "James,chair in government/business,University of Texas" What does "chair" mean?Does it mean chairman?

What does this mean? "The fashion industry had lost its old customer base -- the young who were receiving unsolicited credit cards with large borrowing balances in the mail." What does "receiving unsolicited credit cards with large borrowing balances in the mail" mean? Thank you.

What do these mean? Occasionally Wallace worked double time in order to bend reality to meet his fears, employing a kind of meta-logic reminiscent of his fiction. “A lot of his criticism wasn’t that he was stupid in the whole bell curve of the population, but that what he was really good at was pretending to be really smart,” What does “employing a kind of meta-logic reminiscent of his fiction” mean? and “he was stupid in the whole bell curve of the population”?