Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome he managed to win an art competition prize, to climb the dome of St. Peter's and carve his initials higher than any previous vandal. He remained there two years or less; an alert guard caught him climbing a nunnery wall and he returned to Saragossa where he was promptly given a commission to decorate a church...
Along the east waterfront of Manhattan one day in 1844, sailors and loungers beheld a startling sight. It was as if Trinity Church had skimmed down Wall Street and now was riding the waves of the harbor on a barge. Actually a seagoing House of God complete with steeple and flag, heated and lighted by stove and oil lamps, the floating phenomenon was the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour (see cut). Built by the Young Men's Church Missionary Society, it was meant to attract mariners who would never worship ashore at landlubbers' churches. The church existed...
...Sept. 29, 1931 Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, older and wiser of Cleveland's bachelor brothers of railroading, called at No. 23 Wall Street to transact some business with J. P. Morgan & Co., his biggest bankers. As he chatted in an inner office someone summoned him to an adjoining room. There he found an old friend, Joseph R. Nutt, Cleveland banker. After a brief conversation Mr Nutt produced a document. He beamed while Mr. Van Sweringen signed...
Last week the following were news: The president of the New York Stock Exchange serves for one year, the governors for four. Last week the nominating committee posted its slate for the May elections. Though talk of revolt against the Stock Exchange's die-hard policies had filled Wall Street for months. Richard Whitney was named for his fourth term and seven of the ten retiring directors were renominated. Nomination for president is tantamount to election. Nevertheless, it was clear that what for the Stock Exchange was a major shake-up had occurred. The three governors not renominated were...
...throbbing of the night falters, the all but unbearable pressure of the vast silence is relieved. Then almost imperceptibly the lost beat gradually resumes its monotonous crescendo; the night, forcing down more determinedly than ever, creeps in around the edges of the dirty window, even permeates the very brick wall of the Vagabond's room. It crushes in, and constricts all his senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared as painted blocks; there is a sensation of a ceaseless drop from...