Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modest headstone marks Reed's grave, his feet lie toward the ancient Kremlin wall, and his head toward Red Square, therby paralleling Lenin's glass-covered body within the tomb...
According to U.S. Ambassador to France William christian Bullitt, who married John Reed's widow and served as first U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. until last August, Harvard Communist John Reed's ashes were interred behind a plaque in the Kremlin Wall not later than...
...Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract. Pat Piper, a Chicago bookmaker in the next room, was struck by a piece of plaster when a bullet crashed through the wall. When detectives broke down the door they found Ballard seated in a chair with a bullet through his heart, Alexander dying, a suicide...
...elections. Businessmen might not like the results but they at least knew now what they were in for. A closer contest, a stronger minority in Congress, might have left room for doubt. While a few soothsayers remained to croak, "Just wait till two years from now," the majority of Wall Street jumped straight aboard the Roosevelt landslide, ready to ride it while the riding was good...
...rectangular limestone carving in high relief which showed plainly that the unknown sculptor had a sense of humor, at least of satiric portraiture. The block, 49 in. long, was called a lintel, although its scanty margins indicated that it was used not over a doorway but as a wall tablet. Parts of the carving were effaced, but by squeezing every available clue Miss M. Louise Baker, experienced archeological artist, was able to make a wash-drawing reconstruction of the original...