Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humble piazza called Campo San Trovaso, bounded by a church, two 16th Century tenement houses and a small canal. Shylock's miserly squawkings came from a bridge still decorated by the arms of the Venetian Republic. Gratiano cruised about the canal in a medieval gondola. A garden wall of one of the tenements was transformed into the avenue to Portia's house on the mainland...
...preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled" ("Wall Reunion." TIME, July 9). Does "shriveled" mean some shrinkage or withering due to natural causes?or did a TIME writer, like those Puritan preachers, nod? In either case, because no modern delusion is more widespread or persistent among intelligent and otherwise well-informed persons than that concerning the manner in which the victims of the 17th Century Witchcraft Delusion perished, will you tell TIME readers exactly how many men and women, in all the American colonies, were ever burned for witchcraft? J. FRANK DAVIS...
...idea that adult responsible men can be taken from their homes, stood up against a wall, backs to the rifles, and shot to death is beyond expression...
...Traitors must be put up against the wall and shot!" roared Leader Forster. "Here in this German outpost we shall forever uphold the Hitler spirit. We believe in Germany! We believe in Hitler...
...that Mr. Pecora was fighting tooth & nail against Mr. Kennedy's election as chairman. That job was morally Mr. Kennedy's because the President had given his good friend a five-year appointment, longest of any Commissioner. But there was open talk that Mr. Kennedy was a Wall Streeter, that he was not above a little stock speculation now and then...