Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specifications. The architect's draft of this world's first educational skyscraper shows a great soaring edifice, Gothic in form but not in detail, rising tower above flanking tower, up and up along slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base. The base is to be 360 by 260 ft., with four main arches, each 39 ft. high, opening into the heart of the pile. Batteries of high-speed elevators will be installed to race aloft through the tower to class rooms, laboratories, shops, libraries distributed on the building...
Some of the more daring asked if it were true that he had come to Europe without knowing the amount of his salary. Replied he: "That is a mere detail...
...lbanex, has now awakened the more subtle spirit of Dean Swift. Gulliver in this case is Bagaria, the famous cartoon'st of El So, a Madrid daily, and the scene of his remarkable travels is neither Brobdingnag nor the Houyhnhnms--but the more pertinent Mars. Daily letters describing in detail the condition of Martian life and Martian morals have been published in El Sol. Baraglas inferences of Mars correspond suspiciously with the present state of Spanish affairs. "Ninety percent of the Martians are soldiers and the rest are compelled to work...
...Bandolero. Bandits and bullfights all wound round with a shawl of Spanish atmosphere make a good start. In the detail and fineness of photography, the pace is excellently maintained. Overcomplication of narrative with divided interest between the bullfight hero and the bandit hero check the proceedings slightly. Bullfight hero's father has murdered bandit hero's wife. Bandit hero accordingly objects seriously to marriage between his daughter (Renee Adoree), and bullfight hero. The horns of the dilemma shift to the horns of the bull. Bull gores bullfight hero. Daughter weeps and bandit hero cannot bear that. Happiness...
...Alfred Clapp), 68, blackface comedian; in Manhattan, from a bone tumor on his leg resulting from a fall. On the vaudeville stage for over 50 years, Mr. Dockstader's most famed performance was an act in which he appeared, with burnt cork on his face, accoutred in every detail, even to teeth, as President Roosevelt in Rough Rider's costume. His mere entrance brought a roar of laughter...