Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Duke of Connaught, great uncle of King George, who, too feeble to take part in the service, watched the procession from a car outside the Chapel; the Duke of Windsor, a Garter Knight of 26 years' standing.* In a box high on the north wall of the Chapel, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, dressed in pink, gazed on the sea of blue, scarlet and gold beneath them, soon spotted their mother's father the Earl of Strathmore. This was the first time in 600 years that a father and his daughter were attending a Garter...
...London's Stock Exchange last week brokers developed a new parlor game of cricket-with-ping-pong-balls. Wall Street went in for ticktacktoe...
...grassy terrace on one side of Lenin's tomb." According to you, Mr. William C. Bullitt, first U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and now Ambassador to France, denied this and said that Reed's ashes were interred behind a plaque in the Kremlin wall...
...rest. Big, swashbuckling Governor Flores da Cunha of his home state of Rio Grande do Sul, who rebelliously threw his support to Candidate Salles de Oliveira to keep his onetime friend Vargas from succeeding himself, was left stranded absurdly without an issue. Hemmed in by a solid wall of Federal troops suspiciously watching for any trouble he might start with his 30,000 militiamen, Governor Flores da Cunha received without enthusiasm the news that Candidate Salles de Oliveira was about to charter a steamship for a barnstorming campaign along the coast...
This year's Bawl Street Journal, annual Manhattan Bond Club parody of the marmoreal Wall Street Journal, tried hard last week to keep its cracks aimed below Canal Street. But its 14,000 Wall Street-wise chuckled most over an advertisement which read: "DEAL WITH US: No Restrictions, No Holds Barred, No Legal Opinions, No Balance Sheet, No Income Account: U. S. GOV'T BOND DEPARTMENT...