Word: wallness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transports of popular enthusiasm which his Government has ever permitted itself the luxury of enjoying. If war could be declared by poster, China declared it last week with gaudy and gigantic stickers pasted up all over Nanking showing Generalissimo Chiang leaping to the top of China's Great Wall and beckoning with drawn sword for a Chinese army to follow him over the wall and into Japan's Manchukuo. The Christian birthday cake of the Dictator carried not 50 candles but replicas of 50 foreign-built bombing planes of the latest type which are the Chinese people...
...Market value of Goldman Sachs Trading shriveled from $500,000,000 to less than $10,000,000. Funnyman Eddie Cantor, who lost a sizable fortune in the stock, made the name of Goldman Sachs a sure-fire gag from coast to coast. Law suits received so much publicity that Wall Street pranksters used to call up Goldman Sachs, ask for the "litigation" department...
...Nominee was being driven away, a liquor bottle crashed against the stadium wall, showered the running board of his car with splinters of glass. "I just couldn't resist the impulse," confessed 16-year-old John Dobbins to police...
...question of the press's power to influence its readers' votes, a significant commentary last week was that, with the press thus pumping for him by more than 2-to-1, Wall Street betting odds against Alf Landon's election were...
...team didn't coordinate well, and was weak on fundamentals and drive throughout the game. Captain Healey stood out in the line, and Sargeant did a good job on defense, baking up the forward wall, but observers noted there is still a long way to go before the Yardlings will enter a gams as favorites...