Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central pair have to get the maid's book of applied witchcraft to restore things to normalcy. They run into special trouble obtaining a yellow-bellied spider and in learning the Babylonian word for cockatoo. They ultimately succeed but with disastrous results for another couple present when the spell is cast...
...build the new Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, he produced one of the marvels of modern construction. A vast, low building on a symmetrical plan, it was Wright's first ambitious use of the cantilever principle, which allowed him to rest each concrete floor slab on a central support, like a tray on a waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock, the architect rested his building...
...little of the patriarch about him except his fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman. Whether or not that line is still central in U. S. culture, there can be little doubt that Frank Lloyd Wright is their worthy peer...
...other: Pennsylvania-Central Airlines...
Though she boasts a repertory of 67 operatic roles, it is her Elektra that has made Rose Pauly famous in Central European opera houses. Before a recent appearance at the Venice Opera, a dinner was given in her honor by Mussolini. During the festivities she remarked to a nearby stranger, "I think that we at least ought to see Mussolini here. I'm so disappointed because he won't be present when I'm singing ." "I'm sorry too," said the stranger, "but I have to go to Rome for " then added, "you must be almost...