Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countryside had become a boiling sea with humans clinging to treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard Oil and the Japanese Concession, and a wall of British-American Tobacco Co. fell like the crack of doom. Said the U. S. chief engineer of the Yangtze River Conservation Commission, Col. G. C. Strobe: "The Chang-kung Dike cannot stand for more than another...
...rash of local strikes and street violence, the Times plant was bombed. Many were injured, 20 killed. "O, you anarchic scum," cried General Otis, "you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!" Viewing the destruction of the building, in ruins save for a portion of wall where perched the Times eagle, a local poet named Drayton Pitts spontaneously declaimed...
Temper tantrums are one of the most common forms of naughtiness. The youngster works himself into a rage. He yells, stamps his feet, rolls on the floor, strikes at everyone in reach, curses, bites, bangs his head against the wall. Best way of curing a child of tantrums is to leave him alone during his spells, never argue or give in to him. No child has ever become sick or died in a tantrum, says Dr. Kanner...
...happening to his bill. Indeed, the subcommittee was so secretive that banker-baiting newspapers suspected skulduggery. When it was discovered that Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank had been in touch with Messrs. Glass and Townsend on the telephone, the Senators were loudly accused of selling out to Wall Street...
Then in a Wall Street tussle Josh Cosden lost his shirt, his homes and his company, which became Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. With $3,000,000 put up by his friends, the slim, personable oilman retreated to Texas, there to build another Cosden Oil and another $15,000,000 fortune...