Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Safe Blowing. The afternoon was lengthening and employes of the Bank of England were preparing to dash home for a spot of tea, when suddenly they beheld the street full of Metropolitan policemen, hastening resolutely toward the Arcos Building. Throwing a cordon about it, they rushed the open door, occupied the whole building in a twinkling; warned screaming typists and frightened clerks not to touch or attempt to destroy any paper, book or document, herded the women into one large room, the men into another...
...large safes in the basement proved too much for the police. Soon workmen with safeblowing apparatus arrived. Pneumatic drills were featured in their technique, and all the next day a purring t-t-tat-tat-tat-t-t was heard in Moorgate street. Finally the safes were burst open, more trucks backed up, more papers were trundled away...
...Extraordinary program. Lady athlete, with exclusive figure beauty in nature's garb. Wrestling?men, women and mixed. Various chansonnettes. Horse training in the open. Magic conjuror fakir of ancient times...
...lecture, which is being sponsored by the departments of Music, Fine Arts, and Romance Languages and Literatures, is open to the public free of charge...
...buildings will contain dormitory accommodations for 238 men, a library of 250,000 volumes, class-rooms, seminars, offices, commons rooms, dining rooms, and an auditorium for gatherings open to the public. This auditorium, accommodating 600 people, will stand at the corner of High and Grove Streets. It will have separate entrances, so that it may be shut off from the School proper if desired. On the High Street front will be offices and seminar rooms, and above them, the library. The offices of the Dean and the Registrar will be placed in the corner of High and Wall Streets...