Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after Munich, Minister Masaryk's Legation in London, ordered to remove resigned President Benes' portrait, complied. A second order, requiring removal of a portrait of Jan's father, was not immediately obeyed. At last Jan himself volunteered, silently lifted his father's picture from the wall, bowed, left the room. Last week there was no longer a place for able Jan in the diplomatic service. On January 1 he will move out of the Legation in Grosvenor Place, has no other plan than a projected two-month trip...
...California racing fans, impatiently awaiting the opening of Santa Anita on the last day of the year, the Adams v. Longden rivalry was particularly exciting. Although neither jockey is as well known nationally as Eddie Arcaro, generally considered the best rider in the country, or Nick Wall. No. 1 money winner of the year (some $400.000 for his employers), Johnny Longden and Johnny Adams are great favorites on the West Coast...
...London doctors, Arthur Henry Douthwaite and G. A. M. Lintott, have been examining the effects of certain substances on the stomach's wall, and last week in the Lancet they let other doctors in on what they had discovered...
...fine spring-fever day in 1929 a high-keyed, hawk-nosed, 28-year-old publisher named George Macy paid a well-plotted call on a Wall Street broker named Jack O. (for nothing) Straus. Publisher Macy was in search of an angel. He outlined for Broker Straus a heavenly publishing scheme: limited editions. "Wait here for me," said Straus. A few minutes later he reappeared, handed Macy a fistful of checks. They were for $1,000 each. To fellow brokers downstairs on the floor of the Stock Exchange he had merely whispered the compelling cantrip of the bulls...
...most moving of Coffin's verses deals with an old rural custom of marking children's heights upon the wall, a custom which he fashions into an appealing metaphor called "The Family Stairs." He draws heavily upon the emotion conveyed by understatement for an effect of quiet charm. Again in "The Race" and "When Worthen Plays," there is the same moving simplicity and clarity in catching a parallel of life in a human custom or act. As Percy Hutchison phrased it, although he deals with beauty and delicacy of subject, Coffin "never forgets that his is the oaten flute...