Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, the Memorial has taken definite shape, that of a stone tablet, to be placed against the outer south wall the Gardiner Public Library...
...Gimme two nickels," he called to the barman on the floor. "I want to make a call." He went to a wall telephone, rang police headquarters. "This is Dutch Schultz," he gasped. "Send an ambulance. I'm dying...
...most exact planning. But your plans may be unrealizable because the laws of society, institutions and authority oppose them. I believe that planning is putting Authority's back to the wall...
...view was the "telephone of the future," not slated for general service until two years hence. It is a self-contained unit, eliminating the black box screwed on the wall. On top of a small metal housing, shaped like a truncated pyramid, is a fork carrying the transmitter. Inside the housing is the ringing mechanism, two musical gongs which may be rung emphatically with a metal clapper or softly with a wooden one at the subscriber's whim. Recessed into the housing is the dial, which operates almost noiselessly...
Daughter of a prosperous Connecticut criminal lawyer named James E. Russell, Rosalind Russell has two brothers in Wall Street. After a private school education, she traveled abroad, gratified her ambition to become an actress with minor parts in European stock companies. When she returned to the U. S., she toured for nine months with a tent show before taking a small Broadway part in The Second Man. A one-night Hollywood performance in No More Ladies led to an M-G-M contract. She is a collector of first editions of children's books, reasonably good at fashionable sports...