Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Partner Seligman was 76 when he died, had been inactive in the firm for years, politicians viewed this reason as polite fiction. Senator Couzens' threats seemed more plausible; proved again that any Wall Streeter is good mincemeat for the Congressional sausage-machine...
...long ending in a sort of jointed breastplate of diamonds. Dealers, many of whom were unable to get in the room, shouted bids through the door, raising the price $250 at a time. A quiet, unassuming woman in galoshes who sat with her husband on a bench against the wall finally bid it in for $15,000. Said she: "It's beautiful. It all comes apart, you know, and makes lots of bracelets and brooches and things." Known to every Chicago gossip columnist was the historic Bonaparte-McCormick gilded-silver dinner service of 1,600 separate knives, forks, plates...
...where the lamps are still filled with whale oil, the bathtubs are tin, the portraits 150 years old. She is briskly sentimental with an octogenarian admiral (William Ingersoll) who has thoughtfully dissembled his love for 60 years, tries to persuade her young nephew (Tom Douglas) to give up his Wall Street career and live with her. He promises to show his fiancée when he finds a girl who does not mispronounce Rockefeller. With these gentle snobbish strokes, the stage is set for the introduction of the nephew's girl (Peggy Fears). He meets her at a vulgar...
...copy of "Ear ce Rammed," peered intently through his spectacles, and poked a long bony finger at the CRIMSON reporter. "Sure, I'm still here," said he, indicating with a jerk of his head the irregular piles of volumes stacked along the side of his hole in the wall at 30a Boylston St. "Sure, the cops've got nothing on me. They're just trying to scare me out. I don't have to have any license...
...Beale, high-scorer in the game with the Terriers, will start at right wing, with Windy Hasler and Al Dewey completing the forward wall. Fran Lane will not be able to make the trip, since his old football injury is acting up again. His place at the point position will be taken by Frank Gleason, who will pair up with Bill Watts, thus forming a combination which, although it has not been very effective to date, has nevertheless been steadily improving. Captain deGive will fill his usual place as guardian of the draperies...