Word: pillared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sheriff Farley, a Tammany pillar and close friend of Boss John Francis Curry, lost his job not because he had been charged with incompetence, permitting gambling in his political club and retaining interest on litigants' money, but because he was unable credibly to explain a personal fortune of $357,000 which, taken from a mysterious tin box, far exceeded his gross public salary (TIME, Feb. 29 et ante...
Shanghai Express (Paramount). The scene wherein the heroine feels called upon to sacrifice her honor to the villain in order to save the man she loves has occurred so frequently in the cinema that it can be regarded as a more rigid pillar of the industry than Mr. Zukor, Mr. Lasky or Mr. Hertz. But Shanghai Express is" a picture of the new school, and when Marlene Dietrich promises Warner Oland to visit him at his castle if he will refrain from destroying Clive Brook's eyesight with a red hot poker, you will not find the situation banal...
...been the guests of Dr. Rice on inspection tours. Under his leaderships or that of Weld Arnold '18, instructor in Geography, such tours are apt to start in the basement where a solid cement vault stands at one end of the building. Within it, on a solid, sand-cushioned pillar, there is a rare type of clock, one of seven in this country. It is a product of English manufacture and its exceptionally delicate mechanism establishes for the institute the primal fact of geography, the exact time. It is wired to another mechanism in the clock room, where several varieties...
...last week and waited quietly while a felt-slippered attendant brought him his books. On his way down to the reading room in the Sixtus V wing, he passed a workman and one of the architects engaged in the restoration of the Library arguing excitedly in front of a pillar. Marco Vatasso worked late. It was almost dusk, almost everyone else had left the building, when he looked up to see the Library's whole massive-beamed roof crashing down on his head. The avalanche of masonry, bursting through the vaulted ceiling of the great Salone Sistino above, smashed into...