Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James William Stevens, a shrewd, smallish old man who used to prowl around the Loop on Sundays spotting likely real estate propositions, is head of the family and was chairman of both the insurance company and the Stevens and La Salle Hotels. Son Raymond William was president of Illinois Life. Genial, square-faced Son Ernest James is the active hotel man who now often says: "I feel as if I were a hundred...
...freely through the gloomy Imperial Palace. They may gaze to their heart's content at the iron cot on which old Franz Josef slept, at the basin in which ample Maria Theresa bathed. But one wing in the Hofburg is barred to them. Tourists are not allowed to prowl through the rooms which belonged to Archduke Rudolf, Franz Josef's son who died mysteriously at his hunting lodge at Mayerling. Rudolf's rooms have not been preserved as a museum for tragic memories. They are occupied by 40 lively boys, the Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys...
...Amedeo Maiuri, 46, director of the National Museum in Naples and superintendent of the antiquities preserved in that neighborhood, has long been accustomed to make the 12 mi. trip to the Cumaean Rock and prowl speculatively through its grottoes. To the south side of the Rock are vineyards, whose owners use the caves to store their wine tuns. Something in one of the cellars attracted Dr. Maiuri's attention. He picked at a wall, found that it blocked a trapezium-shaped passageway 20 ft. high, 10 ft. wide at the bottom, 40 ft. long. Lateral tunnels...
After a two-week recess to allow Counsel William A. Gray and his investigators to prowl around Wall Street for more data, Senator Peter Norbeck's Banking & Currency Committee last week resumed hearings on the buying & selling practices of U. S. stock exchanges. Having heard a lot about post-crash short-selling (TIME, April 25. et seq.), the Committee now went back to the great pre-crash bull pools...
...oratory. Besides unhinging his office door, to fulfill his countless campaign pledges Mayor Dore must also cut all city salaries over $3,000, including his own, must dismiss the superintendent of the city-owned street railway system and, like Theodore Roosevelt two generations ago in New York City, must prowl the streets in disguise after dark to see if the police are properly beating their beats...