Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glories of Park Avenue; the same sunshine on the littered, crowded alloys of Mike Gold's 606 playground (the East Side); Fifth Avenue jammed with taxis, limousines and fur-clad ladies with good dogs; dismal parks replete with dejected souls, magnificent churches disgorging uplifted souls; bustling symbolic Wall Street, beggars, radicals, bankers, gangsters; longshoremen--a consolidated mass of humanity, steel and stone. The book is arranged on the thin theme of a 24 hour period and attempts to follow representative types through their daily trials, labors and joys. The book is New York and thus will present a different face...
...Lacrosse, Coach Pool feels, should have great appeal because it possesses not only speed and ruggedness, but also a continuity of play, such as is associated with hockey. When a poor throw is made, the ball may readily be retrieved off the wall without necessitating any delay from whistle blowing...
Court. Nine old (average age: 69) men in flowing black robes wall settle these and many another New Deal question. Their answers may in some instances come too late to be of more than academic interest-but their power to make and unmake a political Administration remains undisputed. Quidnuncs like to divide the court up into liberals and conservatives. Such a procedure works well for the generality of cases but foolish is the liberal lawyer who considers his case won because he can count five so-called liberals on the Supreme bench before...
Ideas as complex as Dr. Oud's easily get mixed. Hardly had he uttered his careful IF, than Wall Street was reading that "HOLLAND MAY DEVALUE FLORIN, Dutch Finance Minister Sounds Warning...
Shortly after a group of Harvard Lampoon graduates had moved to New York and in 1883 founded a decorous humorous publication called Life, a Wall Street office boy arrived at their sanctum with a sketchy cartoon. He was the sort of office boy the editors of Life wanted to encourage-a hard working, impoverished Boston gentleman. The editors of Life gave Charles Dana Gibson $4 for his cartoon...