Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance. Crowds pressed against the windows, gaped in as waiters moved among the customers, arms bobbing, chorusing "Heil Hitler." Peeved with the good German burghers who pestered him with questions about Brother Adolf, Alois next day called in a sign painter, had him plaster in German script across one wall; "Sup di duhn und fret didick und holl din mul von politik." ("Drink a lot and eat a lot but don't talk politics...
...Jerusalem one day last week a young Jew named Aryeh Kotcher concealed something in his garments, got past a cordon of police without it being noticed, joined throngs of Jews praying at the ancient Wailing Wall. During a moment of silence, Aryeh Kotcher whipped out his shofar or ram's horn, let out a loud toot before police bore down and arrested him. Public shofar-blowing in Jerusalem is forbidden by law, for it infuriates Arabs, incites to riot.* But Jew Kotcher was happy because it was Yom Kippur, and his ritual blast on the horn had signalized...
...with some able stooging by Grant and Oakie, Arnold appears on his way to another of his masterful, belly-laughing characterizations, this time of the late Jay Gould's spectacular compeer. But enter love. Miss Farmer's rather self-conscious poignancy upsets the emotional possibilities inherent in Fisk's Wall Street development. Then set for a satisfyingly tragic romance amid the triangle of Arnold in love with Farmer in love with Grant in love with Farmer but faithful to Arnold, the watcher is again disturbed by the reappearance of the financial Fisk in an incomplete version of Black Friday...
...entertainment side, Miss Farmer's beauty, Mr. Arnold's laughter, Mr. Grant's clothes, Mr. Oakie's face, and the naive antics of post-Civil War Wall Street speed the picture's pace. Donald Meek provides an amusing if untrue underdog Daniel Drew. Hauntingly the refrain of "The First Time I Saw You" pervades the whole...
Offensively Carr faces his greatest problem at the start. Lettermen T. Newlin Hastings and Robert E. White, both Seniors, report they will be unable to play. Only Thomas Motley '38 stands out in an attacking wall which has given Crimson booters their chief disadvantage for the past two years...