Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banking house of his father, Harvey Fisk, who had made a fortune helping the Union finance the Civil War. Four years later Pliny Fisk became the firm's trader on the floor of the Exchange, was there christened by his bearded fellow-members the"apple-cheeked boy of Wall Street." But Broker Fisk soon cut a man-size figure. In a few minutes one afternoon he sold $2,000,000 worth of securities to Hetty Green-after the doorman had tried to eject her because of her shabby clothes. By the turn of the century he was head...
...mention of sentimentality are not gong to enjoy "Three smart Girls Grow Up," for there are the inevitable "intimate" bedroom scenes, tear-besmirched love affairs, and deep, dark young-girl secrets. But the sentiment is seasoned with humor-as, indeed, the whole film is; Charles Winninger, a hopelessly absentminded Wall Street begwig, is constantly funny, and Deanna herself, in the course of straightening out her sisters' affaires du coeur, upsets the conventional applecart on many a delightful occasion. Add to this the music--which, this time, included "The Last Rose of Summer"--and the whole is well-worth the holdover...
...Washington as in Wall Street, S. F. Porter has long since ceased to be an unknown columnist. No longer is there any real mystery about the pronoun. Yet last week, when Harpers published an able, informative tract freely sharing some of a recognized expert's secrets on How To Make Money in Government Bonds ($3), Author Porter's special secret was tactfully kept...
...most spectacular pool operators of Wall Street's New Era was tense, redheaded Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, onetime theatre ticket agent. Same week in 1935 that SEC started to drive him off the Exchange on charges of rigging Bellanca Aircraft stock, Broker Meehan bought a $130,000 seat for his son William as a 21st birthday present. Last week the Exchange announced that a seat had been sold for $60,000 to Mike Meehan's youngest son, Joseph, 21, a senior at Fordham University. If the sale is approved, Joseph Meehan will become the Exchange's youngest...
Hours later, Antoine sat down on the floor, rested his back against the wall. The little girl was still alive. The younger doctor was treating him with awed deference. Rachel's eyes glinted with admiration. Antoine had learned what being a great doctor meant. But sweating, dirty, stupefied with weariness, Antoine was only conscious of his overwhelming desire for Rachel, whom he had never seen before and did not expect to see again...