Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police. Wanted in Oklahoma City for the Urschel kidnapping, wanted in Kansas City for murder, wanted in Chicago and St. Paul for robbery and murder, Kelly-a heavyset, black-haired ex-convict who got into crime via bootlegging and who boasts that he can write his name on a wall with machine gun bullets-had been eluding Federal authorities for more than three months. Thanks to an intercepted telegram and the story of a 12-year-old girl, they caught him one dawn last week in a Memphis bungalow...
Under the Empire's present debt agreement Britain is scheduled to pay the U. S. roughly $11,000,000,000 in annuities running until 1984. The lump sum Sir Frederick reputedly has in mind is $1,000,000,000. If he finds that Wall Street cannot float so large a bond issue, the lump may have to be smaller. "The best solution, of course," correspondents were told by a candid Exchequer functionary, "would be cancellation of the entire debt...
...grey rats shipped out last week were: a hot-tempered Frenchman who killed a motorcyclist for passing too close to him; the notorious Dentist Laget who poisoned two wives; the Parisian ne'er-do-well Guy Davin who murdered the U. S. ne'er-do-well Richard Wall for $300; a multitude of arch-crooks, killers and underworld rabble. Fortune's fool was there too, a murderer named Boyer who was to have been executed the morning after an assassin killed France's President Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16, 1932). On the technicality that Boyer thus...
...made of his secret substance. Tank & contents remained intact. He put a box, containing a letter, into a fuel fire. The letter remained uncharred. Then came Major van Rolleghem's finale. He stepped into a boxlike affair supposed to be a cockpit. Gasoline was sloshed against the front wall and ignited. The whirling propeller of a nearby airplane fanned the flames to terrific heat, but they failed to scorch the major...
...often a great solace to sedate socialites to have their pioneer ancestors safely framed on the dining room wall rather than seated at the dining room table. Because Lily died in 1929, because there are many conservative souls who vividly recall her goings on, because the memorial was erected with her own money, and finally because its site is the most prominent in all San Francisco, for many months there was agitation against erecting the tower at all. At the last minute the Park Commission bowed to the extent of changing the name from Coit Memorial Tower to Coit Tower...