Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West a generation ago, big, red-headed John Llewellyn Lewis once had the job of driving a mine mule named Spanish Pete. Pete was a mankiller. Rounding a tunnel curve one day, the creature slewed around, reared, raised its hoofs, prepared to bash Lewis against the mine wall. Young John had just enough time to spike Pete between the eyes with the point of the sprag of his coal car. To avoid imminent fine and dismissal, the young mine worker rubbed clay over the prostrate Pete's fatal wound, explained to the foreman that the animal had just dropped...
...convention must have at least one good, healthy snarl at Capitalism. "Do you . . . stand with the President of the United States?" asked Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady. Up went a mighty affirmative roar. "Let that," declared New Dealer McGrady, "be the answer to the money bags of Wall Street...
...Newshawks pressed the President for confirmation of Wall Street rumors that more dollar tinkering was soon to be expected, received blunt assurance that the rumors were "just another of those things" -baseless...
Democratic Senator Byrnes: It was the voice of Oliver Street but the thought of Wall Street...
...pantry, managed by the butler, where students might order extra or special portions of choose, ale, butter, bread, jam, and the like, if they desired. When such an order was filled, the butler marked the purchase against the student's name listed on a record sheet tacked to the wall. Many of these record sheets are bound up in the "buttery" ledger...