Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People, thousands and thousands of people, more people than there are in Indianapolis and St. Louis and Birmingham, Ala. combined, jam-packed the stone-cliffed canyon of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for half a day last week. Three out of every ten New Yorkers were there, 2,000,000 strong. They fainted, they cheered, their feet hurt, their clothes got mussed. At 58th Street their sheer bulk bulged through splintering plate glass windows. The Governor's motorcycle escort rode one down. A pack of them upturned a policeman and his screaming horse. There never had been so many...
...encouragement of archaeology and classical studies without distinction as to sex, race, nationality, colour, or creed. Through this splendid benefaction Dr. Loeb has left to posterity something which will nobly perpetuate his name. It is a monument which, though less conspicuous than the structures of brick or stone which commemorate the famous names of the past, has the advantage of transcending the limitation of a local habitation. Thucydides has told us that the whole earth is the tomb of famous men, and it is, indeed, fitting that so rare and munificent a patron of good learning should leave behind...
...prepared an extensive report on Russian debts to the U. S. as they figure in the recognition issue. Alert, aggressive, sharp-nosed Minister MacMurray, say his friends, could never have been induced by the President to take the obscure and unimportant post at Riga except as a stepping stone to Moscow 530 mi. eastward...
...person she has been accused of shooting. All this is as engrossing as the normal detective cinema but what gives Bureau of Missing Persons substance and makes it interesting journalism as well as adequate fiction are convincing shots of how a Missing Persons Bureau works. Captain Webb (Lewis Stone), Butch Saunders' superior, is a skillful and intelligent policeman. The picture shows him giving good advice to a child violinist, a man with an overenthusiastic wife, a fussy old bachelor who has lost his housekeeper, an old lady whose daughter has run away. If disappointed because no Judge Crater came...
...That people might buy & sell (but not drink) U. S. wines and whiskeys American Liquor Exchange, Inc. quietly opened for business in Manhattan last week. Founded by Sidney Reich, a 40-year-old importer whose family has never been more than a stone's throw from a vineyard, brewery or distillery, it is not an exchange but a firm dealing in warehouse receipts. Stocks cannot be removed from bonded warehouses (except with a federal permit for medicinal sales) but receipts representing ownership can be traded. Quotations: bourbons ten years in the wood-$-34 to $35 a case; ryes...