Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gretna will rise three round units connected by an underground passage, each bounded by a 33 to 39 ft. reinforced concrete wall. One will house prison work shops, and probably a factory where inmates will make soap for 54 other State institutions. Another will contain recreation facilities and latrines. Centre circle-672 ft. across-will contain a hospital, an auditorium and six separate cell blocks, with accommodations for 592 prisoners, each in a private cell. The cells will be so arranged that any inmate who chisels his way out will find himself in either the next cell or a corridor...
...shampoo. Everywhere, scattered about the place, were grim reminders of his genteel background: a cold bottle of Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied in needlepoint and framed on the wall. We begged the privilege of an interview. . . . Mr. Tilley let the comb drop into his lap, and turned half around, his magnincent profile etched in light from the window...
About that time E. L. Cord's fast-moving career suddenly changed direction. In 1934 he took his second wife and their children to England to escape kidnapping threats. In Wall Street rumors began to fly that Capitalist Cord, who kept his fortune in 1929 by a wise abstinence from the markets, had begun to dabble and get burned. Cord stayed in England for two years. Then last summer he attracted the attention of the Securities & Exchange Commission because of his heavy trading in Checker Cab stock. Last April came the astonishing news that hard-bitten Mr. Cord...
Back in San Francisco after frolicking at the famed annual outdoor tycoon bust of San Francisco's Bohemian Club. John P, Bickell, mining speculator and director of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, celebrated Wall Street bear, backer of the Merrill-Lambie Coronation flight, were walking down Post Street toward Union Square. Said Speculator Smith: "I feel like taking a trip." Replied Banker Bickell: "That's a great idea. I'll go anywhere you want ." At that moment they were opposite the St. Francis Hotel which houses the offices...
...London, Heralds' College announced that new Earl Baldwin, formerly Prime Minister had chosen for his coat of arms the Latin motto "With the help of my God I leap over the wall," had further chosen as the supporters of his arms not the lion & unicorn but two white owls, symbolic of wisdom...