Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...according to their ability just like the income tax. The rich banker is not going to buy a whole flock of tickets to any charity football game, nor it is likely, with all our precedents of quotas and pinning, that he would be allowed to do so. But the Wall Street barons who are so prominent in Harvard's alumni lists should think nothing of dropping a hundred dollar bill into the hat when it is passed around...
...died in 1920 leaving a daughter, Mary, who is now 17, in school at Aiken, S. C. By returning to Germany at the outbreak of the War Baron von Mumm sacrificed his prosperous wine business. Afterward he could salvage little of his fortune, lost what remained in the Wall Street crash. Of late he had been working as a customer's man in a brokerage firm, but concealed the extent of his poverty even from his nearest friends...
...heart. The outer sack is just big enough to let the heart expand comfortably. Often enough to concern doctors the sacks become inflamed, from pneumonia, rheumatic fever and other infectious diseases. The sacks may stick together. Or the outer sack may adhere to the inside of the chest wall or to the upper side of the diaphragm. Or fibrous bands may develop and constrict the heart. During early pericardiac inflammation, Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner of Cornell University pumps a little nitrogen-rich air between the two sacks. The gas holds the tissues apart until the inflammation goes away. Inflammation causes...
...bargains on Broadway. In 1927 Lee & Jake owned, leased or operated 43 first class theatres in New York, 55 in other U. S. cities, six in London. Came the Depression and the revolt of the Broadway angels. The Shuberts sold their British theatres; most of the others remained dark. Wall Street attempted to take over-with the predictable result that last week the bankruptcy became official. A loss of about $3,000,000 was disclosed. So Lee Shubert, who always keeps a large red apple on his desk, insists that barbers shave him with glycerine instead of lather...
...lows. Cotton advanced slowly, steadily. Factors were a September rate of consumption better than that of last year, reopening of many Lancashire mills after the pound's fall, also British buying against a possible tariff. The revival of prices in these two big commodities brought cheer to Wall Street, Washington, and many a harassed farmer...