Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photograph was not reversed, else the map of the U. S., on the wall behind them, would, in such case, be poking its Florida thumb out on the Southwest corner...
...gilded trappings hung from above, no canvas masonry affronted the eye of the 1937 realist. The play, up-to-date in dress and interpretation, was the thing. The red-brick back wall was the only backdrop, the gadgets of a more formal theatre hung idle in the wings. The high loft, emptied of its scenery, lent itself to a grotesque play of light and shadow. Below, on a bare stage platform graded down toward the audience by three steps, the Mercury Theatre players enacted a sinister tragedy of dictatorship...
...Columbia Gas & Electric to $10.50, up $2; North American to $23.50, up $3.50. Industrial and railroad issues tagged along, U. S. Steel bouncing hastily back from a new low of $51 to $60.50. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average was back to 133 and Wall Streeters, eyeing Washington with something like glee for the first time in many a moon, had justification for holding that sweet are the uses of electricity...
Married. Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 18, son of Wall Street's famed speculator, now recovered from bullet wounds received at his mother's hands during a Montecito, Calif, drinking excursion (TIME, Dec. 9, 1935); to one Evelyn Bletzer Sullivan, 20, four years a divorcee, daughter of a late barkeep and prizefight promoter...
...aggressive forward wall and a highly touted backfield. In the opening period Captain Clint Frank will run like a doer and he will pass with deadly accuracy in the final minutes. Between the halves he will exhort his team-mates to greater heights...