Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move from Macon Street. The village police force grew weary directing traffic, answering complaints against women who shrieked: "Peace! Peace! Oooooh, ain't it wonderful!" Nevertheless, Preacher Divine continued to feed & clothe a hundred-odd people, to serve six meals a day, each meal enormous. On his wall hung two signs. One said: "PEACE. CIGARS, CIGARETTES AND INTOXICATING LIQUORS NOT ALLOWED. IT'S WONDERFUL." The other: "NOTICE. VISITORS AND CALLERS NOT ALLOWED UPSTAIRS...
...never safe to leave one-armed Jose Clemente Orozco long in the presence of large undecorated wall spaces. Artist Orozco, whose jutting jaw and glittering glasses make him look not unlike an ecstatic bullfrog, is, like his friend and compatriot Diego Rivera, one of the most important mural painters in the Americas, an avid reviver of the art of true fresco. Few months ago he lectured before Dartmouth College's Department of Art. Dartmouth's chief pride is a new Georgian library, gift of the late George Fisher Baker. It has nice new walls that made Muralist Orozco...
...Ezra Winter's great projected murals for Rockefeller Center in New York will not be frescoes but huge canvases glued to the wall...
...Manning McKeon, a member of the New York Stock Exchange but a partner in no firm, was not summoned to Washington during the recent bear-hunt. Nor did his name appear upon the Senate's list of big shorts. Although his brother, Robert Manning McKeon, is known in Wall Street as an important independent floor trader, Daniel McKeon had little fame in the financial district until last week...
...demoralization in which prices would not fairly reflect market values, and thereby was guilty of acts inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade." Although the Exchange found Member McKeon's offers had not been accepted, his intentions were sufficient to bring about the penalty. Hearing the news, Wall Street chuckled at the thought that after 32 months of a declining market the Exchange at last had an official bear to exhibit...