Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silent motionless water." So you see-on the theory that a Negro never commits suicide-unless living in an unnatural environment such as cities-Precieuse did not commit suicide. The No-Nation Girl has both made us some very good friends and lost us some friends also. . . . VIOLET ASHLEY WALL...
...confirmation by the Senate it could be argued that he is a Republican from the state that gave the world "Grundy" tariff rates. On the other hand it could be pointed out that his long foreign service has given him a view of the U. S. high tariff wall from the outside, that he sees foreign trade and conditions in the broadest economic range. His personal record, is (or should be) above Senate attack; he has no known commercial connections to work against confirmation...
...feed the colonists. Besides painting, classes in furniture-making (later dropped), rug-weaving, metal-working and pottery were instituted. The farmers' attitude is indicated by a Le Gallienne anecdote: "One of them recently interviewed as to what he thought of the artists when they first came . . . replied, 'Wall, to tell the truth we thought they was a bunch of wild Indians and maybe some of them still is. In those days they'd take a canvas out into the field and begin painting on it. First, they'd put a dab of paint of one color and take about...
...finally commemorated in the dreamy Medici Chapel of San Lorenzo. Six Popes employed him. An ever-unfinished undertaking for a tomb of the first plagued him half his life. For four years he worked on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, for six on the Last Judgment on the adjoining wall. No project was too immense for him to begin, but many were too great to finish. From birth perverse and self-contained, he had a permanent disfigurement which toughened his misanthropy. Love for mankind he never developed, but love for his work never deserted him. At 70 he was finishing...
...pride of an investment bank is expressed in the size and number of bond syndicates in which it participates. Last week the Wall Street Journal tabulated the relative positions of houses whose names appeared in new offerings totaling more than $50,000,000 during the first half of the year. Of 122 houses in this classification, the 20 leaders were...