Word: erects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance he is small, lean and wiry. His thin face is tanned a reddish brown. His stubbly brown hair he wears cut short and upright. His clothes are expensively conservative. On the floor he usually sits erect and silent, hands folded attentively in his lap. On the rare occasions when he does speak, he asks in advance not to be interrupted and then begins to read: "The Navy is the first line of defense. . . .'' No orator, his voice lacks resonance and pitch. When drawn into rough-&-tumble debate on the Navy, he becomes fussed and nervous...
Silent on the platform sat Dictator Josef Stalin, and to No. i Correspondent Walter Duranty the Man of Steel looked "benevolent." Comrade Vyacheslav Molotov, the thickset, middle-aged Soviet Premier, talked. Six hundred stomachs quaked with laughter when he said: ''We are trying to erect next year more blast furnaces than the United States will close down...
...years ago another eccentric fi burst forth upon the world from Newburyport. He was Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, 34, a hard-boiled red-headed Irishman with close-set eyes, a screwed-up mouth and a pancake felt hat pushed down over his forehead. Onetime sailor roustabout, he started to erect a filling station on his lawn in contemptuous regard of a city zoning law. He protested at the City Hall and, having "hung one on the the Mayor's jaw," was sentenced to 60 days in the local jail. From then on he began to act like the reincarnation...
Last week Inquisitor Seabury put Builder Fred F. French on the stand. Mr. French, Brooklyn-born, was once a Princeton student, then successively a cow hand, stoker, timekeeper when the Hippodrome Theatre was erected. He is responsible for the Tudor City residential de-velopment on Manhattan's East Side. When he wanted to erect a Fifth Avenue office building of dimensions which needed an "interpretation" from the Board of Standards & Appeals in 1926, Builder French was guided to the Olvany firm...
...work of the landscape architects who planned and laid out Central Park in New York, a project which led to the establishment of numerous others all over the country. More interesting than this, though, is the story of the Roeblings, father and son, and their long struggle to erect the Brooklyn Bridge, the one great monument of the Brown Decades...