Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house of his father, Harvey Fisk, who had made a fortune helping the Union finance the Civil War. Four years later Pliny Fisk became the firm's trader on the floor of the Exchange, was there christened by his bearded fellow-members the"apple-cheeked boy of Wall Street." But Broker Fisk soon cut a man-size figure. In a few minutes one afternoon he sold $2,000,000 worth of securities to Hetty Green-after the doorman had tried to eject her because of her shabby clothes. By the turn of the century he was head of Harvey...
Idaho. It was 2:30 on a Sunday morning in quiet Nampa, Idaho. Straight down Third Street South, past the Pacific Fruit Express yards, a car raced at 70 m.p.h. It slowed to turn left on Eleventh Avenue, sailed past the historic Dewey Palace Hotel before State traffic officers caught it, arrested Vardis Fisher, 44, impassioned Idaho novelist. Writing an impassioned account for the Idaho Statesman, Author Fisher said he was taken to jail, told to put his heels together, hold his head back, and close his eyes, to determine if he was drunk, was then locked in a verminous...
...years ago in a crowded little top floor room on Manhattan's 14th Street, Painter John Sloan and Walter Pach joined in bestowing on hulking, frog-faced Diego Rivera the title of "People's Artist of America." The ceremony and the investiture were of little avail. Rivera never again laid brush to wet plaster...
Professor W. E. Clark, Master's Lodgings, 85 Dunster Street...
...Little, Master's Lodgings, (use Study entrance, opposite CRIMSON building on Plympton Street): Mon., 10-12 and 2-5; Tues...