Word: engulfed
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...Street block is a nine-story department store building. A Fifth Avenue dress shop known as The Tailored Woman has an eight-year lease which Radio City refuses to buy up. The Radio City building will be built around The Tailored Woman, ready to engulf it soon as the lease expires. The home of Robert Goelet was on the 49th St. corner. He could sell to the Rockefellers, but tore his house down to put up a modernistic office building on the site. He has agreed to build in keeping with the general scheme. Still undecided are the color...
...Engulf some tons of nutriment...
...Cosgrave of the Irish Free State last week opened a sluice. The Bishop of Killaloe was there to bless the sluice, to murmur a Latin benediction. Soon muddy Shannon water was gurgling slowly into Ireland's biggest ditch, a huge canal-reservoir six miles long, deep enough to engulf a four-story home...
...white man in China last week was King Canute uneasy on his little throne, the foreign concessions, defying the tide of Chinese Nationalism not to engulf him. Throughout Europe disgruntled great men were busy explaining why the China tide is rising...
...same fine commonplace of circumstance upon which to embroideries the curtain rises upon her own levee, which gathers momentum as she gathers momentum, the audience is aware that it being treated to something almost around American powers of production. The great canopied bed may seem at times to engulf her, but it requires no more than a moment and the tip of her shoulder to center attention and no more than a mirror and a pat to her hair to render her regal. The whole first act moves incredibly fast, as it passes in review scenes so excellently staged...