Word: washing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismayed when he returned to New York in 1904 and discovered the first philistine skyscrapers being stuck into Manhattan "like pins in a pincushion." But what really shattered Author Henry James was a stroll through his once beloved Washington Square. He searched for the house at No. 21 Wash ington Place where he was born, and found the site occupied by a dreary clothing factory. "Its effect for me," he wrote later, "was of having been amputated of half my history." It also rankled James that the city of New York had not seen fit to erect a small monument...
Gone with the Wet Wash. One of the most successful detectors, Atlanta Insurance Agent Tom Dickey (brother of National Book Award Poet James Dickey), has turned up so many Civil War projectiles over the years (nine tons of them) that he stashes many in his basement for fear the upper floors will collapse if he displays them. He sighs that "the centennial ruined us" and says flatly that "the best finds are made by novices on ground that has already been beat flat." Possibly. But farmers who own land that includes Civil War ground not yet beat flat are fully...
Bellevue, Wash...
...Good Turn." Viola was accused of "wash trading," which involves the manipulation of stock-market transactions to create a false impression of brisk activity-and is illegal in both the U.S. and Canada. On July 10, 1964, the prosecution charged, she arranged to sell 244,000 shares of Consolidated Golden Arrow Mines Ltd., another of her companies. At the same time, she bought up the entire block for the accounts of ten persons, including her husband George. Since Golden Arrow stock had been sluggish up to that point, the sudden burst of activity was enough to send its price soaring...
Grimly Defiant. Her conviction, which she plans to appeal, was just a start. For one thing, her broker, Robert J. Breckenridge, a former president of the Toronto Exchange and onetime chairman of the city's Better Business Bureau, has also been charged with wash trading in the Golden Arrow case. And Viola herself, together with her husband, will stand trial on more serious fraud charges because of their Windfall dealings. For all her troubles, the Queen Bee remains grimly defiant. "They can't take my love of mining away from me," she said last week...