Word: nob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stanford and Hopkins built huge houses on San Francisco's Nob Hill; Crocker spent $1,250,000 to rival them with a gaudy, towering architectural monstrosity. An undertaker who owned a small house in the same block refused to sell it; Crocker built a spite fence 40 feet high, completely enclosing his neighbor's home. Dennis Kearney led a mob to tea down the fence and hang Crocker from the flagpole atop his 76-foot tower, but the mob decided to burn Chinese laundries and beat up laundrymen instead...
...joint called the sacroiliac" persists and, as she recognizes by writing her autobiography, her tennis career is over. Today her career is on other courts: she paints (mostly still life), designs sport clothes and Lastex underwear, has lately taken a screen test, entertains in her duplex studio apartment on Nob Hill, surrounded by an array of lamps created out of tennis trophies...
...kept Transamerica on the board through a temporary technicality. By last week this breathing spell had cooled everybody off. The Exchange gracefully came down off its high horse, "requested" the listing; "A. P." as gracefully agreed. President Shaughnessy remained in office and San Francisco's brokers strode down Nob Hill jauntily once more...
...clerks and clerical workers. Demands of chambermaids, elevator operators, bellhops and the five culinary unions had been granted. But the hotels balked at the clerks on the ground that they were "confidential employes." For nearly three months such famed hostelries as the Mark Hopkins and the Fairmont on Nob Hill, the St. Francis and the Palace (where died Warren G. Harding) have been closed to transient and local trade...
...into first gear to get up, into second to get down. The man who cracked this tough civic nut was a wire manufacturer named Andrew S. Hallidie, who in 1873 invented the cable car, started the first one on nearly vertical Clay Street. Overnight, property values doubled on Nob Hill and all real estate boomed for several years as the city spread from Telegraph Hill to Twin Peaks with cable cars sprouting in every direction. Today cable cars are only a small part of San Francisco's transit system, but they are still one of its quaintest and most...