Word: wallness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bull Run. Falling back with his Georgia brigade, General Barnard Bee had glanced up at Henry House plateau where an obscure Virginia officer named Thomas Jonathan Jackson was holding his ground against Union assaults, created an immortal nickname by crying "Look at Jackson! There he stands like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!" In mid-afternoon a fresh contingent of Joe Johnston's troops trotted up, charged with "Stonewall" Jackson's infantry and "Jeb" Stuart's cavalry. The tired, untrained Yankees broke and ran. Next day the North knew it was in for a real...
...Spain were in its harbors. Before the Oklahoma could reach San Sebastian, the French destroyer l'Indomptable and the British destroyer Verity had already arrived, hustled all foreigners away who wished to leave. None was more shaken than five Swiss tourists who had been lined up against a wall for execution by the Leftists until they could convince them that they were not Nazi agents helping the Fascist revolution. Word finally seeped down from Ambassador Bowers. He was marooned in his villa, barricades between him and San Sebastian. This week, with his wife and daughter, he scuttled...
...test the reported willingness of bankers & brokers to back Alf M. Landon at 5-to-8 odds, the pro-Roosevelt New York Daily News sent a newshawk to Wall Street with $1,600 in cash. Unable to find anyone to bet $1,000 on the Republican nominee, the newshawk reversed his position, promptly discovered a Roosevelt supporter who bet $1,400 against his $1,000 that the President would...
...late Huey Long. Sweat streamed off his broad face, plastered his shirt against his barrel chest as he swung into his harangue. No mild economic creed was his but a rousing call to arms. Too long, he shouted, had the plain people of the U. S. let Wall Street and Tammany rule them...
...shepherd named Abdul Ouab asked a French army captain in Algeria to think of some object in his Paris home. The soldier thought of a valuable family portrait. Instantly the picture appeared on the wall in Algeria; the stupefied Frenchman not only saw it but handled it. He cabled his parents in Paris. Back came the reply: "Portrait inexplicably stolen this morning. Police at work and Sûrete announces arrest of thief imminent...