Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small, glass enclosed room, scurrilously famed as "The Goldfish Bowl." Originally the "bowl" was the conservatory of an old hotel, which hotel is now the musty Secretariat of the League of Nations. During the Summer the old "Fishbowl" was demolished and a new once, twice as large, built at a cost...
...could thumb his nose at Marcus Daly. Perhaps in triumph, he went to Manhattan and built himself a house, in the tradition of Butte ugliness. It cost $7,000,000. It held: 130 rooms, 21 bathrooms, a furnace burning 17 tons of coal daily, 5 organs, 1 Turkish bath, a hideous tower, dining rooms on all floors, 4 picture galleries including the best and worst art of all periods. Within this pretentious tomb, Miner Clark lived quietly with his wife and children. He became a familiar figure in Manhattan, strutting down Fifth Avenue, his white hair waving wildly...
...theatre is a dusty kennel, full of drafts and dust, scented forever with a sweet, unreal and sticky perfume, built of planks and plush, to house deceptions. Hoboken, N. J., is a squat and smoky suburb of Manhattan, a place where trains load and boats dock, where beery workmen lurch home along cobbled streets and where the world of art is chiefly represented by ancient and execrable examples of the cinema. Why then should anyone want to own a theatre in Hoboken, N. J.? Famed Author Christopher Darlington Morley (Where the Blue Begins, Thunder on the Left) knows, for last...
...Rejected by standard tire companies as unfair and uneconomical. . . . Abused by unscrupulous drivers. ... An unfair sales inducement rather than a protection for the buyer. . . . There are no miles in a bottle of ink. You cannot put mileage into tires by written guarantees-it must be built...
Author Frankl does not prove that "simplicity" does match modern life. Nor does he recognize that his "simplicity" is rather the affectation of simplicity-witness a creation entitled "lady's whimsical desk built like a puzzle...