Word: guardedness
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Among the scrubby frame stores and dwellings of East 133rd Street in the vast, tawdry northern sector of New York City which is called The Bronx, sprawls the low brick structure of a fur dyeing factory, broad, ugly, busy. Beside it runs an alley full of old machinery. Into this...
Alfred Irénée du Pont is 67, has one eye and an irascible nature. His 500-acre estate ("Nemours") near Wilmington is guarded by a high, barbaric wall. Firmly cemented in its top are great jagged pieces of glass. The gates are made of iron grillwork backed...
¶ Published by the Associated Press last week was the historic, closely guarded letter which Germany's President Hindenburg wrote President Hoover the day the debt holiday plan was announced in June. Excerpts: "The dire distress of the German people which is now at its highest peak compels me...
For hundreds of years all the bakers of Seville have come from the suburban village of Alcala de Guardaira. All last week the frightened bakers marched to work guarded by soldiers with fixed bayonets.* Hundreds of Syndicalists were arrested. Enough pistols and knives were found on them to fill six...
Merrily Reno continues to have Monday "washdays." It grants about 100 divorces a week, twice as many as under the old three-month law. Divorce-seekers may circulate at will throughout the state, but most prefer to stay in town, gamble at the Bank, New York, Wine, Rex, California and...