Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Amherst money market is responding well to the bullish forces with a best for the more uncertain in uses, there should be an impetus to the interest in Wall Street already exhibited by the men of the cloth. There have been surer methods of providing for the daily bread, but none have transcended mediocrity with a more ecstatic revelation of the divine afflatus than glows beneath the raftered roof of the chapel in the Berkshires...
...even before this famed transaction, Broker Whitney was very well known in Wall Street. His firm, Richard Whitney & Co., is considered Morgan's broker; he is the younger (age: 41) brother of Morgan-Partner George Whitney. His knowledge of bonds is as thorough and keen as any in the Street. Groton-and-Harvard (1911)-schooled, he goes in for such cultured recreations as breeding Ayrshire cattle and fine hunters at his Somerset County, N. J., farm, although he occasionally foregoes these pleasures for yachting (he is treasurer of the New York Yacht Club). Last January, wearied by Exchange travails...
Came another divorce. La Cavalieri married Tenor Lucien Muratore. Artist Bob erupted in a flood of murals. He designed stained glass windows, painted screens, covered the walls of tycoons' swimming pools and conservatories with a profusion of birds and beasts in brilliant dynamic color, all the while eating, drinking, living with gargantuan gusto. No one house was big enough for this titan. He bought three brownstone houses on East 19th Street, Manhattan, knocked them together and covered every inch of wall space with his own paintings. There are palm trees and parrots in the pantry, a dado of chimpanzees climbs...
...undergraduate, it seems, wanted to swim on Sunday. Scaling a rear wall, he squeezed through a narrow window, smiled triumphantly...
Playchoice, Inc. is a mature organization, well equipped to conduct such affairs. One day six months ago, youthful, ruddy John Krimsky, bond salesman, sold all his securities. Two days later Wall Street was in full panic but Krimsky's money was safe for Krimsky's scheme: he would apply the book-of-the-month-club system to the theatre. For a membership fee of $45 per season, Playchoice offered a pair of good seats (first to eighth rows in the orchestra) for six plays-of-the-month selected by a critical committee atfter witnessing all promising plays during...