Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a flick of his tails, he stepped into the Ballroom. Past him foxtrotted five hundred League of Nation delegates, some tall, some ridiculously short; all jiggling merrily to a blaring cacophony from the room's far end. Seventy-five feminine representatives blossomed against the wall, some hiding their disappointment, with pale powdered smirks, other bolder ones occasionally stepping out to cut in on a dancing couple...
...cellmate. Herbert Youngblood, a Negro in for murder, alone accepted. They selected two machine guns from the jail arsenal, and, taking Deputy Ernest Blunk as hostage, went to the jail garage. They could not start the two cars there. Dillinger tore out ignition wires. Once over an eight foot wall, with Blunk between them, Dillinger and Youngblood made their way to a garage whose owner was foreman of the Grand Jury which indicted Dillinger. There stood Sheriff Lillian Holley's new Ford V8 sedan, equipped with red headlights, a siren, a short-wave radio set and decorated with...
...that all this punishment is justified because the aviation companies made a lot of money is still heard among the thick and thin supporters of administration policy, but a checkup of stockholdings shows that the Wall Street crowd sold out their securities early in the game and it is the small investor who is suffering today...
...year at Williamsburg. After the ceremonies, the party inspected the H-shaped Capitol building, whose handmade bricks had been specially fashioned in a nearby brickyard, admired the reproduction of the chair in which the Crown Governor once sat, smiled at an inscription above an arch in the south wall of the piazza: "Her Majesty Queen Anne Her Royall Capitol." A reception and luncheon given by Mr. Rockefeller and a Legislative tour of restored private homes and public buildings concluded Williamsburg's biggest day since 1779, when the capital moved to Richmond...
...time," The Author. In 35 years, Matthew Josephson has done a variety of things. Brooklyn-born (1899), Columbia-educated, after a year as financial and literary editor of the Newark Ledger he joined the post-War literary exiles in Paris, wrote for transition, helped edit Broom. Two years on Wall Street as a customer's man turned his eyes from surrealiste poetry to Coolidge finance. Married, with two sons, Josephson lives at Gaylordsville, Conn, near his good friends Charles and Mary Beard (The Rise of American Civilization). In a workroom there made from an old corn crib he wrote...