Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon there were signs of storm. Wall posters at Manhattan rail terminals warned that train service might soon cease. Midtown telephone switchboards glowed and twinkled with extra calls. Business firms dismissed employes hours early. In trickles, then torrents, the city's half-million commuters headed for trains. So did thousands of nervous travelers. By 3 o'clock (Eastern Standard Time), vast, gloomy Penn Station was jammed. Both levels at Grand Central were packed with rumpled, sweating, anxious crowds...
...since 1941 has the Bawl Street Journal, a wild parody of the sober, conservative Wall Street Journal, been published by the Bond Club of New York for its annual outing. To make up for this wartime repression, the first postwar edition of the Journal last week contained some of the most merciless, heavy-handed ribbing ever of bankers, brokers and bureaucrats...
...toughest fights of Midwesterner Kirkeby's nine-year career as a hotelman, and the stakes were high: control of Manhattan's 375-room Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Sharply at 10 a.m., big, confident Mr. Kirkeby arrived at 14 Wall Street for the annual meeting of Sherneth Corp., which owns the Sherry-Netherland...
Soon after the Wall Street crash, Patterson the scandalmonger strode into the city room and announced: "We're off on the wrong foot. The people's major interest is in how they're going to eat." Next year, his $10,000,000 skyscraper was completed, with six words from Lincoln's famed homily about God loving the common people carved over the door: HE MADE SO MANY OF THEM. On March 6, 1933, the Daily News pledged itself to support President Roosevelt "for a period of at least one year." The support lasted almost...
...made an interesting retort. She had married him once, and living with him was "too dangerous," she protested. She declared that he "used to beat himself up, scratch his face and bite my leg. There was a pretty bad time all around. He would beat his head against the wall. It was difficult to be married to a man like that." Said Señor Macoco, shocked: "I cannot imagine anything more ridiculous than biting a girl's leg. ... I have great admiration for legs, but not as victuals...