Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brass-helmeted firemen, rushing to the rescue, found the Glen Theatre's doors blocked solid with bodies "like a wall of cement bags." Cutting a hole through the roof, smashing windows they formed a living chain to pass out 70 small bodies, many trampled beyond recognition under stout Scotch boots. Inside the theatre, a few calm children were still alive...
Every morning when the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch reached his fusty little office in the top of the Invalides, he would lean his umbrella in the corner, adjust his spectacles, tap the barometer on his office wall, then call as he sat down at his desk "Et maintenant, ou est mon Weygand?" Loyal, capable General Max Weygand, member of the superior War Council, was always there. Despite the fact that he had been Chief Assistant, almost a second son to Marshal Foch since the outbreak of the war, General Weygand never dreamed of sitting down in the marshal...
...weeks ago M. Pierre Etienne Flandin, Minister of Commerce, sent an ultimatum in the direction of the U. S. Senate: "If others build tariff walls, France will build tariff walls!" (TIME, Dec. 2). M. Flandin's wall, scheduled to go before the Chamber of Deputies this month, provides: 1) Increased duties on assembly parts ranging from 30% to 200%; 2) The present ad valorem duty of 45% on complete cars raised to 90%, practically a prohibitive duty...
Together with Sales Manager James Grainger and Cortland Smith of the Will Hays office, General Manager Sheehan is now one of a committee of three who are actually conducting the Fox business. He is popular with the cinema industry, with Wall Street...
...From wall to wall the little trapped ball, hard as a modern golf ball, smaller than a modern baseball-a Turk's head of plaited rubber strips sewn in a membrane of goat-skin-flew so hard that it hurt bare hands. The players took to wearing gloves, then invented and strapped to their throwing wrists a long shallow wicker basket (called cesta). hooked like a giant's fingernail. The length of the throwing arc added speed to the little ball, heightened the game's excitement, sent it back across the ocean with other Spanish improvements...