Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corner of 109th street and Second avenue, Manhattan, gazing across the street at the windows of the City Trust Co. They wondered what, if anything, their bankbooks might be worth. On the windows were posted notices that the state banking department had taken possession of the bank. Back of the closed doors bank examiners checked books and investments and balances. Perhaps the bank was "broke...
...collapse came in the spring of 1923 Now, after six years, Mr. Saunders is back...
Last week Sculptor Borglum announced that his return to the airy Stone Mountain scaffoldings was likely, that the Memorial Association had been penitent, urgent. "I was dismissed," he said, "because it was charged that I dominated the entire project. I do not deny this. But I am going back and dominate the project without interference...
...sent Gale back to his passionate young wife, a husband and yet not a husband. For several years they stuck it out, till cumulative suspicion and repression hurled Justine into the arms of a lover, and Gale to the distractions of Spain. The lover proved less satisfying than the bull-fight-not the conventional scarlet-cloaked trickery, but a duel during which Gale rode bareback, crashing down gorges, wallowing through torrents, staggering up embankments, till finally he brought the bull to its knees...
...many a lingering guest. At the moment it was the Montmorencys who lingered: she because of Danielstown itself-"doorways had framed a kind of expectancy of her; some trees in the distance, the stairs, a part of the garden, seemed always to have been lying secretly at the back of her mind"-and he because of Marda Norton. Marda was leaving next day, to visit her fiance in Kent. Meanwhile she walked with Montmorency- and Lois-along the river toward a deserted mill...