Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day she wrote: "Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday would probably irritate Stalin even more than he is already exasperated with the United States ... [He would probably be] more annoyed by [it] than by Wall Street ... It will take a long series of five-year plans before the Soviet woman can buy a dress, a hat or a pair of shoes for anything near the price a New York working girl paid for her Easter outfit...
...outrageous painted cherubs-soon resembled a subway rush. A bar did a roaring business at one end of the room. A jostling throng of Senators, Cabinet officers, Congressmen and newsmen juggled drinks and loaded plates as the President sat eating, napkin on knee, on a chair against the wall...
...plane from Peiping winged down to the airfield inside Nanking's ancient wall. Nationalist Envoy Huang Shao-hsiung, back from peace talks with the Reds, stepped through the hatch into a clamoring crowd of reporters who besieged him with questions. The man from Peiping parried feebly: "Splendid weather we're having...
...them back at. week's end. In Jerusalem's New City, the authorities erected a triumphal arch. From atop Mount Zion, Jewish pilgrims peered down into the Arab-held Old City; the Arabs had so far refused them permission to come in for prayers at the wailing wall. The Israelis hoped they would soon fix that. They had changed the traditional Passover prayer to: "Next year-in Jerusalem the capital...
...secret of Cannon's success was the unsparing use of his apparently boundless nervous energy. At one time, besides his duties as head of a Methodist girls' school, he edited a newspaper, ran the Anti-Saloon League, speculated heavily on Wall Street and was one of the most active lobbyists for legal morality in Washington. His handling of political contributions became a national scandal, but he successfully defied congressional committees that sought to bring him to heel. Once he walked out of a public hearing after refusing to testify. Brought before both civil and ecclesiastical courts he always...