Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With regard to the scruples of a certain lady about the nude bathing on the Riga Beach [TIME, May 12] . . . may I inform you that the Riga Beach lies behind a natural wall, about 20-30 feet high, formed by sand dunes covered with Scotch pine-Pinus sylvestris...
...Clayton arrived in Washington, Minnesota's irreconcilable Isolationist Harold Knutson warned: Congress will promptly raise any tariff the State Department lowers if it damages "a vital industry." As chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, Knutson set up a subcommittee* to keep the watch on the tariff wall...
...look to the brown-paneled wall where, painted 30 feet tall, is Ceres again. This Ceres is a powerful, morose woman. Her breasts are full, her waist is thick and muscled, her hips wide and powerful. Her strong legs are firmly planted in pregnant wheat. Her bored, detached attitude bothers some of the men. But usually the red-faced, screaming, frantic little men with thinning white hair and worried brows are too preoccupied to look at the fertile, sullen woman. They jump around, dash up & down the seven steps of the pit, wave their arms, yell as loud...
...Obviously the building is on fire. But no. The price board on the west wall is the cause of all the commotion. May wheat has just jumped from $2.69 to $2.69¾ a bushel. Presently the noise dies to mere bedlam...
...dead man's lawyer (Sidney Blackmer), and waste no time polishing him off too. Then up jumps a second taunting anonymous letter congratulating them on their second successful murder-"and all's to do again." The game of doping out this uncomfortable handwriting-on-the-wall goes on, for murderers and audience alike, to a pretty unexpected finale...