Word: wallness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was boom talk. All that was needed to start another mining stock boom were a few "circumstances": 1) prospective Philippine independence which will put other Philippine exports outside the U. S. tariff wall, thereby making them unattractive for investment; 2) $16,000,000 of AAA sugar benefits which poured into the islands; 3) the Spanish revolution which marooned Spanish capital in the islands; 4) the greater venturesomeness of British and Chinese capital...
...operatives as soon as they are unfortunate enough to peruse a copy of TIME. Such a calamity would react upon your paper in that "news" might become scarce over night. On the other hand, picture the handicaps I might be forced to labor under, in any plans to destroy Wall Street: to lower the value of Florida real estate by a bombing raid and alas, worst blow of all, to deprive the Hearst publications and the fair State of California of the chance to shout "We told you so!" Fair play, mates...
...with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri was hit, for he was seen to fall twice; nevertheless he crawled up to the church wall. Half a minute later both charges went off with a sharp crack, tearing the two volunteers limb from limb. This was immediately followed by a dull, heavy roar as one wall of the church collapsed inward in a tornado of dust and pulverized masonry, bringing the roof partly down. Some...
...optometry is to forget money." Dr. Folsom, who reads history, Emerson and the Abbé Dimnet, recommended that cash registers, show cases, "dealer-help" display cards and other such commercial paraphernalia be kept out of the patient's sight, that no clock be placed on the reception room wall for waiting patients to count the minutes...
...move two horses from the stable. He never returned. As he released the horses he heard a "dreadful roar . . . punctuated with a succession of tremendous crashes." He climbed to the top of the building. He saw his parents waving to him from a window, just before a wall of water and de-bris-"a dark mass in which seethed houses, freight cars, trees and animals"- struck the house, crushed it like an eggshell. With a self-possession unmatched in autobiographical literature, young Victor Heiser took out his watch, noted the time. It was just...