Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justice without law. and no law without a sanction. Either Republicans of the Knox and Hoover type do not know this, and in that event we deprecate their naivete, or they are insincere in holding out to Labor a palm that is greasy with the stuff from Wall Street that makes the G. O. P. machine go round...
...woman had left a fire to welcome the fellow; the candies had burned their life away. Things were different tonight; as if some ominous cloud had set about the Tower. The moon shone into the chamber in a doubtful, suspicious manner. All kinds of weird shapes quivered on the wall. And now there struck a deep-booming, yawning bell. Twelve o'clock...
...each & every applicant to go ahead. Result: pictures of Speaker Rainey flooded the office of Chairman Keller until by last week there were ten in all. Nine of them, bearing a marked resemblance not only to the late Speaker but to each other, lined the Committee's office wall (see cut). The tenth, a distressingly primitive study by a friend of the Raineys, was hastily hidden in the cellar...
...elephant paraded in Manhattan's Wall Street last week. All over the city billboards broke out in a rash of promises that New Yorkers would soon see something BIGGER THAN A SHOW-BETTER THAN A CIRCUS. The Hippodrome was boarded up behind signs which warned: SHHH! To a stranger, all this might have seemed strange indeed. But to Broadway its meaning was perfectly simple. Billy Rose was about to open his JUMBO...
...years ago a stock had spurted $11 per share in six days, Wall Street would have glibly explained: "Pool." When Chrysler Corp. jumped from $72 per share to $83 on the New York Stock Exchange last week that stock explanation would no longer do. Pools are now banned by law. Nevertheless, it took less than half an eye to see that Chrysler's spectacular performance was not due solely to bright motor prospects. Rumors took wing that SEC's eagle-eyed trading inspectors had seen all they needed...