Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jock Whitney's grandfather was William Collins Whitney, a New England lawyer who amassed a fortune in street railways, became Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland, built up a string of race horses to extend his Wall Street rivalry with James R. Keene...
...Adelphi Terrace; but none give her a satisfactory answer. Christ, she finds "a good-natured fellow who smiled whenever he could" with a low opinion of women. When she found Voltaire digging in his little plot, the black girl was not hesitant in joining him. Just over a wall Shaw was cultivating in his own hole. An African courtship followed and the heroine settles down with the author of the book. The cultivating continues as before. Shaw places Christ, Mohammed, and Voltaire unmistakably on his own level, but this is naturally Shavian. He plays the part of the here while...
...wealth out of her petticoat pocket; blew a painter out of his saddle high up in the cables of Brooklyn Bridge; blew the S. S. Deutschland broadside against the head of a Hudson River pier; blew homebound Warren S. Coyle's automobile off the road into a stone wall in New Jersey, killing Coyle...
Great was the disturbance in parts of Wall Street, great the joy of reformers, great the approval of many business men and bankers who felt it high time that a banker should frankly come forward, confess his sins and speak freely to restore public confidence in bankers. Not only has Chase a securities affiliate but it has investment bankers on its board (Frank Altschul of Lazard Freres; Frederic W. Allen of Lee, Higginson; Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read; Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone, etc., etc.). And it has one of the largest bank directorates in the country: 71 members...
...faith in the way well-behaved little boys should go. Up to a certain point things went well. Appius walked erect, called Virginia "Mama," spoke out his simple ideas in pidgin English. But when Appius and some little boys got their first sight of each other over the garden wall they called him an ape; Appius had a relapse to the jungle. After that Virginia's faith in her experiment became desperate; she began to see, though she would not admit, the tragedy that was coming...