Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major, led a Marine detachment to Fort Riviere, an old French stronghold on a high hill 20 mi. south of Cape Haitien. It was held by rebellious "Cacos" (native banditti). Major Butler was the third man to enter the fortress through a breach in the fort's thick wall...
...City (London's Wall Street) sighed with relief that the Snowden Budget is not more radical, dropped a pious tear for the landed Nobility & Gentry...
...time an able chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine, Keysman Hobson wrote: "I hazard the guess that Tap Day is doomed, along with the antimacassar, the wall motto, and the works of Sarah Orne Jewett...
...suffering takes place when, permitted to see the baby for the first time in two years, she arrives at the house just after it has died. Paul Stein has put in some thoughtful directorial touches-the lovers talking in bed in a scene in which you see only the wall which they must see from the head of the bed; the Zeppelin raid on London with the sirens hooting and fast cars placarded TAKE COVER roaring through the streets; the scene- presented entirely in shadow silhouet, from the doorway of the room-in which Miss Bennett finds her baby dead...
Surprise? Asked whether or not Pynchon's failure was a surprise, last week Wall Streeters were hard put for an answer. As long ago as last September when tides of rumor were at a height, many things were said about the condition of Pynchon & Co. Widely known was the fact that Chase National Bank, perhaps assisted by another institution, had seen the firm through heavy trouble with loans estimated at from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. Early last week the old rumor again leapt forth. Heavy selling came into those securities of which Pynchon...