Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...site first used by Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, Napoleon's Minister of the Interior. From the terrace on which he was sitting the ground tapered away into a shadowy skirt of pines, cedar, lindens he had laid out himself - the park. With his Polish land sold, now that Pilsudski was in power there, this place had become to the pianist, far more than his property at Nyon or his ranches in California, important as the background of his comfort. With the effort of his concert tour still a few weeks away, it must have seemed...
...foot, are those of 75 stories. In San Francisco, Los Angeles and Cleveland, where prize blocks are worth $200 a square foot, the most profitable buildings must be just 63 stories high. No building should be constructed that high in St. Louis, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh or lesser communities, because land values there are too low to warrant the expense. Their land is comparatively cheap because they have no need for the business congestion which would fill tall structures with occupants...
...higher a full-block building, up to 63 stories on $200-land and 75 stories on $400-land, the greater the percentage of return on investment in such a structure. The limit of profits is 10.25%. Beyond such heights, the investment returns diminish until, on $200-land, a 131-story building would return zero. A 132-story skyscraper would develop a loss...
...never-never land of Zilania is the scene for Sweethearts; a disguised princess (Gladys Baxter), the heroine given the Sweetheart waltz to sing; an heir presumptive (Charles Massinger), the hero ("Every Lover must Meet His Fate"). Both careful performers, they did well with tunes that are still fresh and crinkling...
...evening in 1895 there was revelry in the castle. Outside, the land lay sickening under black frost. A ballroom was remodeled for the party, costing thousands of pounds. The next day Robert Blatchford, in his Clarion, savagely attacked the hostess and her guests for making merry at so desolate a time. Frances went to London indignant, returned thoroughly Blatchfordized. Since then she has established eleemosynary institutions on her estates (Crippled Children's Home, Needlework School at Easton, Bigods School, The College for training women in horticulture). All of them have failed; the benevolent countess has dissipated a large fortune...