Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across the nation rolled the nasal, back-country accents of the "Kingfish." "It has been publicly announced that the White House orders of the Roosevelt Administration have declared a war." cried he. "The lately-lamented, pampered, ex-Crown Prince, General Hugh S. Johnson, one of those satellites loaned by Wall Street to run the Government . . . was apparently selected to make the lead-off speech. . . . What is the trouble with this Administration? . . . They think that Huey Long is the cause of all their worry. They go gunning for me, but am I the cause of their misery? Well, they are like...
...York City had but one Presbyterian church, the First, in Wall Street. Its congregation quarreled, among other things, over the new-fangled hymns of Isaac Watts. So the anti-Watts faction set up their own church in Cedar Street. Successively locating in Duane Street and lower Fifth Avenue, the congregation in 1875 built a big, brownstone Gothic church which still stands at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street among clubs, hotels and big shops. Associated at one time or another with such old New York names as Auchincloss, Sloane, Leeds, Agnew, Gracie, Varick and Aspinwall, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church...
Coach Charlie Whiteside was very nearly hoist by his own petard yesterday when fire broke out on the launch "Frank Thompson" opposite the Watertown Arsenal. Gasoline in the bilge was ignited by a backfire, and in seconds only the crew was scrambling over the stone wall on the Cambridge side loudly cheered by the watching jolly boaters...
...American investment business." When he was pushing his Elektrolite cigaret lighter, he used to rub his hands over the 120,000,000 U. S. birthdays as prospective gift sales, crowing: "Give me 5% of them and I'll make $10,000,000." A sworn foe of Wall Street, which warmly reciprocates his sentiments, he once declared: "I'm no angel but these directors who short their own stock-why, I sold out my stock before the Crash, but I kept every share of those in which I was connected with the management. That little gesture cost...
...fake lucre, tin"); a transdeletion or progressive anagram from '"sod" to "countryside" in eleven changes; a rebus of an H written inside a G, both over a W (since it is The H and writ in G on the W all, the solution is: "The handwriting on the wall"); and interminable alphagrams, charades, transposals, cryptograms, rhomboids, antigrams, palindromes, inverted pyramids and plain puzzles. Outstanding contribution was a "seventeen pyramid" (crossword puzzle whose bottom line has 17 letters, top one). Most useful contribution was a new longest word in the English language, 45-letter "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis," to replace 28-letter "antidisestablishmentarianism...