Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...married a second time. His first wife, to whom he was devoted, was long an invalid, died in 1930. His second was Stella Charnaud. who had been first his typist, then his chief political adviser. She is 38, was once offered a $25,000-a-year-job in Wall Street which she promptly refused. Her solicitude is extreme for her husband who, at 72, has all the suavity, grace and quickness of mind he possessed in his barrister days. He moves spryly, has only the suggestion of a paunch, but his health is most delicate...
...trip to the Cumaean Rock and prowl speculatively through its grottoes. To the south side of the Rock are vineyards, whose owners use the caves to store their wine tuns. Something in one of the cellars attracted Dr. Maiuri's attention. He picked at a wall, found that it blocked a trapezium-shaped passageway 20 ft. high, 10 ft. wide at the bottom, 40 ft. long. Lateral tunnels led to the sheer face of the Cumaean Rock. The tunnels admitted light...
...Heartst put Mr. Opper to work on a daily front-page series entitled "Erbie and 'Is Playmates" * In these cartoons the President was always depicted as a fat little busy-body surrounded by "Ropy" (Europe), "Bolivar" (the G. O. P. elephant), "Taxpayer," "Minstrels" (Republican newspapers and orators), "International Bankers," "Wall Street" and other stock characters. Throughout the series as in many another Hearst cartoon, the question of War Debts played a major part, with "Ropy" loudly boasting that he would "pay nobody" and " 'Erbie" trying to still his outcries. In most of the Opper pictures, which were supplemented with...
...space on the fortified wall between two turrets, Sir Walter Raleigh walked. He had a small white beard and a bedraggled ruff about his neck, of the kind that had been in fashion a dozen years before. He walked back and forth in the narrow space, stopping from time to time to look at the water and at the ships there. He had sailed those boats to Virginia, and brought back wealth and power for himself and his queen. Then he turned away and walked back and forth again, making the four-step turn that British sailors have used since...
...Oldtimers in the small towns along the canyon sensed high-water and set out for high ground. Sixty tramps on a freight train which had sided on a culvert grew restive as the sound of rushing water grew into a mighty roar. When the flood broke, a 45-ft. wall of water tore down the creek bed. Houses were knocked topsy-turvy by great boulders, signals were cracked from their bases. The sided train was lifted from the tracks, its freight cars hurled in all directions, its locomotive smashed sidelong into a huge rock. Tracks were flung about, the roadbed...