Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have distressed King George, it would have made the good man wince, if His Majesty had heard and believed reports current in Wall Street, Thread-needle Street and on the Paris Bourse that a secret deal had in fact been made between the Italian and British Governments (see col. i). In the United Kingdom no hint of this reached the mass of voters who must ballot before this time next year in General Election...
...machine guns in North China (TIME, June 24). To their credit the Chinese Government have the magnificent negative achievement that they have not yet been forced to extend official diplomatic recognition to the puppet Empire of Manchukuo, carved by Japan out of part of North China beyond the Great Wall...
...alarm, the unfortunate inmate of the room makes a flying leap at the box and kicks the front in. Then in one rapid motion he hurls the rope ladder out the window, first making sure that it is tied to something in the room, and clambers nonchalantly down the wall, trying to act as though he were leaving his yacht...
...singer: There was "Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life", there was, "The Lady In Red". There were loud voices, there were louder glances. There were immaculate dress shirts, and there was the Vagabond's. There were laughing faces, and cracking smiles. There were great cascading bouquets, there were wall flowers and pansies. There were tinkling glasses and the dull thud of a bass drum. There were broken hearts, there was the boredom of a thousand. There was a moonlite terrace, there were also chaperons. There were long embrassing conversations; there were short embracing silences. There were those who cut in; there...
This is the story of Benaiah, Valiant son of a valiant si-ah. Hero of a hundred fights, Killed two famous Moabites; Saw a lion in the pit, Went right down and slaughtered it. Killed a giant seven feet tall Whose back was like a city wall. Had a name among the three Mighty men of chivalry. Such is the story of Benaiah, Valiant son of a valiant...