Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been sold to a Munich businessman, a strange character who in two years had risen from nothing to become the foremost buyer of art objects in that city. Upon learning that Military Government was looking for the Jan Steen he hid it in a garage. There, behind a false wall, it was discovered...
Archbishop Beran, the calm center of the storm, remained a semi-prisoner in his Prague palace. All the resources of the Communist propaganda machine were employed in attacking him. The trade-union newspaper Prace accused him of working for "Wall Street-dominated Vatican City." "Leading such a gang," the paper said, "the Archbishop is heading into his own destruction...
...their stately, rambling hacienda house, ringed by a 15-foot brick-and-adobe wall, servants rush out at the toot of a horn to open the wide iron-plate gates. Peacocks strut in the shade of the garden's lemon and eucalyptus trees, and dark-suited waiters move through the great halls inside, passing golden glasses of fine manzanilla sherry from Spain and serving tortillas on the end of a knife blade. La Punta can accommodate 30 guests with all the comforts of a metropolitan hotel...
...young Albert, music was sometimes a shattering experience. He once heard a group of older schoolboys practicing their singing lesson; the unexpected thrill of hearing two-part harmony, he wrote later, forced him to steady himself against the wall to keep from falling. When he first heard brass instruments played together, he says, "I almost fainted from excess of pleasure...
Said one of Wall Street's shrewdest speculators: "If I could find somebody who could tell me a sure way of keeping one-fourth of my fortune, I would cheerfully give him the other three-fourths." Nobody in Wall Street has yet found the "sure way." But in a world of welfare states populated with security-minded people, more investors than ever are engaged in a ceaseless search of their own for security...