Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both Wall Street and Walnut Street were arrested by the series' title The Red Trade Menace, and startled by certain headlines: Famished Moscow Short All Food Except Bread; Red Railroads Collapse; Reds Use Forced Labor In Forests; Russia Ships Coal Here and Sells Below Cost...
...Farewell to Arms is the story of their meeting, wooing, mating and her death in childbirth during the Caporetto retreat of 1917. There are numerous incidental characters who inhabit the play as they did the novel; but in the novel they were neat carvings on a walnut shell. In the play they are thinned and twisted into a helter-skelter, rag-rug pattern. Mr. Stallings is not to be censured for what he has done in all force and sincerity. But it takes more than force to expand a small frieze and keep it significant...
...water; she has a canoe-like stern, long, overhanging bow, a longer and squarer keel than the other proposed defenders. L. Francis Herreshoff designed her. Her steel frame came from Pennsylvania, her mahogany from South America, her pine deck and spruce mast from Washington, her black walnut trimmings from Indiana...