Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of those views: "The surface of small coiled intestines . . . normally . . . appear with a slightly brownish hue, and peristaltic [movement] waves can be noted. ... A small liver with a wrinkled surface and hobnailed irregularities would suggest cirrhosis. Adhesions . . . may be spider web, lacelike, or massive bands. ... When the stomach wall is transilluminated, the stomach appears to observers like a Chinese lantern...
Attorney General Charles Joseph Margiotti is running independently for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and, feeling a bit like a wall flower with no one slinging any dirt in his direction, he started slinging on his own. Candidate Margiotti charged that Philadelphia's Contractor-Boss Matthew H. McCloskey and Secretary of State David Lawrence in 1935 obtained a $20,000 bribe for supporting legislation favorable to Pennsylvania brewers. Although Mr. Margiotti solemnly declared that the voters should not think for a moment that his old friend Governor George Howard Earle III had anything to do with the matter, the Governor...
...east & west by nerve. Crossing their Rubicon before they even started to march, Welles & Houseman leased the Comedy Theatre for five years, renamed it the Mercury, then started looking for their first play. When they found Julius Caesar, they started looking for the money to produce it. Houseman combed Wall Street, got dibs & drabs, enough to keep the cast stringing along and repair the Mercury toilets. He also got promises of $12,000; then the recession came and two of the Mercury's seven angels had their wings clipped. Though Caesar was already in rehearsal, it looked...
Meanwhile, the stockmarket was falling faster than ever before. Dick Whitney got loans on his wife's securities, on those of the Yacht Club. He cadged loans as small as $15,000 from some Wall Street acquaintances, as big as $100,000 from others. He tried to peg Distilled Liquors at about $9 a share, thus eating away his cash. He had already mortgaged his 495-acre estate in Far Hills...
...political strategist, controlling the Democratic Party convention in 1896, maneuvering so skillfully that his enemies were thrown into panic. And after Bryan's defeat, when the Populists were exhausted and demoralized, he was almost the only leader who kept going, launching another attack on monopoly, vested interests and Wall Street as if unaware that his side had been licked. When he died in 1902, newspapers that had attacked him savagely began grudgingly giving him his due; in another ten years he had become a hero to midWest liberals, the "Eagle Forgotten" of Vachel Lindsay's poem...