Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intruder twisted Rosa Ricchebuono's arm, forced her against a wall, tried to throw her on the bed. She tried to scream. The man, a policeman from the Vice Squad, clapped his hand over her mouth and snapped: "Keep quiet. You're under arrest.'" Excited neighbors buzzed about as other police arrived, dragged Mrs. Ricchebuono to the station house on a charge of prostitution. For two days and nights Mrs. Ricchebuono was locked up while Bernard scurried around, trying frantically but futilely to raise $500 bail. Meanwhile a probation officer had investigated the case, found no evidence...
...down the door. The studio was dark, deserted. They broke into the bedroom. The shades were down; it took them a minute to realize what had happened. Pascin had slashed his wrists with a razor. Blood spurted over the room but Death came slowly. He stag gered to the wall, scrawled AU REVOIR LUCY in blood with a gory finger, knotted a cord round his throat and hung himself from the doorknob...
...their conflicting interests in the A. F. of L.'s strike, biggest of the Depression, in Mr. Fitzgerald's Danville mills, largest and long the most peaceful of Southern textile plants. President Green conferred with strike leaders in a private parlor of the hotel while through the wall from the next room came the muffled voice of President Fitzgerald ad dressing a Rotary luncheon...
...exterior of the solid grey institution at No. 23 Wall St. bears no name, but every visitor to Wall Street recognizes it as J. P. Morgan & Co. And all Wall Street if not all the world recognizes election to partnership in that institution as the highest honor in U. S. private finance. Last week the rare honor was again bestowed. The recipient, known long in advance, was Seymour Parker Gilbert, 38, onetime (1924-30) Agent General for German Reparations payments, a lawyer by profession. Ever since he worked with Banker Morgan and Morgan-Partner Thomas William Lament at the Paris...
...bench in the park of his estate. A stroke had completely paralyzed his left side. He died at 9:30 p. m. In life he had one ruling passion: exclusion of foreign capital from his country. With heart and soul the last of the Bratianus hated & feared Wall Street, despised King Carol whom he once called "weak and sly to the point of periodic in sanity." Professor George Bratianu (son of Ion) was not long ago induced by sly King Carol to leave his chair at the University of Jassy, enter politics and split the Liberal (Bratianu) Party by siding...