Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million yen ($2,000,000) was spent on the funeral. Pomp. Red and gold automobiles for members of the Imperial House, two special railway stations, innumerable hand-tooled pavilions, a funeral railway car, a vast funeral hearse (TIME, Jan. 10), and some 20 miles of road and railroad were built-will never be used again. Numbers. Princes, ambassadors, nobles, and army and navy officers to the number of 12,000 participated in the funeral, while two million commoners looked on. Pageant. At 4 p. m. the streets of Tokyo were closed to traffic of any sort...
...after the posters for one of his early beauty shows (a modest affair in tights but warm for its day). At that time the pure zeal of a reformer burned in Mr. Macfadden. He was but seven years away from his native Missouri. Like Theodore Roosevelt, he had built himself up from a weazened shrimp to a powerful athlete. He was as militant as any Irishman with an undigested dose of religion. His faith was physique; he was out to make the world safe for healthy bodies. This zeal has never wholly died. The numerous Macfadden daughters are buxom...
...cult must have a shrine or citadel. Bernarr Macfadden built his at Spottswood, N. J., "The Physical Culture City." Pilgrims groaned when they found they must pay board and yet fast for two weeks. But the city flourished, perhaps on compensations which the New York World misunderstood when it attacked the city as a nest of impropriety and license. These attacks put the city out of business, nor could its Sultan retrieve damages from the World in court. The times were narrow, oppressive. Even a chain of Macfadden lunchrooms failed, all save three, after "revolutionizing the restaurant business" so that...
...Dick discover the book he wants, or ought to want. Dick is the man who reads the book that the storekeeper bought from the agent who came with news of the writer that sold his work to be printed and bound and distributed by the house that Jack Publisher built...
...breakfast table of an apartment dweller seems scarcely more complex, costly and inevitable. Nevertheless, some businessmen have lately set out to simplify book-buying by having strong, swift Harry Carrier do more work than ever. They have him go almost directly from the house that Jack built to the reader...