Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kibitzer (Paramount). A comedian named Harry Green does justice to the stout humor of this play which Actor Edward G. Robinson helped to write and starred in on the legitimate stage last year. Wall Street as seen from a corner store uptown by a market-wise seller of cigars is the background. Typical gag: Harry Green betting on a horse because the horse is going to retire from the track and has never won a race and it is his belief that every horse must win at least one race sometime. Best shot: interview between the cigar store owner...
...action of the Colombian legislature in increasing the tax on petroleum production was interpreted (by Wall St.) as the result of British maneuvering in the world-wide competition for petroleum properties. Specifically, the Gulf departure from the Colombian field was considered a development favorable to Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding and his Royal Dutch-Shell group...
...rough wall of wind frescoed with whorls of fog effectively blocked Bering Strait, between Alaska and Siberia, to flyers last week. Nor could boats cross under the wall, for clumps of ice, like polar lizards, skittered through from the Arctic Ocean southward. Yet it was becoming increasingly urgent that men get from the American to the Siberian side. Carl Ben Eielson was lost somewhere over there, with his mechanic Earl Borland. They had been missing since a flight Nov. 9. If living, their provisions, doled sparingly to each other, would have lasted two months...
...letter of Mr. Kreger, reprinted else-where in this issue, has received from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin a reply that appears, in its blanket denial, unreasonably sharp. Certainly, as both the Bulletin and the writer agree, his objections cannot be relegated to the sour-grapes wall of a disappointed athlete. It is equally true that his connection with Harvard rowing for eight years should have given him sufficient understanding of the situation to guarantee the accuracy of his charges. His pre-refusal of the Bulletin's request to furnish names is based on excusable opposition to reviving old prouder...