Word: larkins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week in a bitter session. President (Premier) William Thomas Cosgrave, sitting as an ordinary Deputy for Cork, was re-elected President of the Executive Council by a majority of six votes. The actual votes cast were 76 for and 70 against, Capt. William Archer Redmond abstaining and James Larkin, Dublin Communist, absent as an undischarged bankrupt...
...billowing hoopskirts and lacy pantaloons, Smith College teachers and their consorts last week played at opera. In the gay frillery of Georg Friedrich Handel's time (1685-1759), instead of in Roman and Egyptian robes, they gave his nearly forgotten Julius Caesar its first U. S. showing. Professor Oliver Larkin staged the production; Professor Werner Josten directed...
Married. Mrs. Vera Ayers Huntington Cravath Larkin, 31, daughter of Corporation Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath; to William Francis Gibbs, 40, famed naval architect-engineer; in Manhattan. Lawyer Cravath was in Europe, unaware...
Nevertheless one wonders if Mr. Larkin does not feel something of the pride which moved Cheops when he built the pyramid which was rather a sensation in his day, of Nebuchadnezzar when he ordered the hanging gardens. There will be no awful monument to a heath on god atop the Larkin tower, and no pleasure palace for a buried king. Nearly a quarter of a mile above the level of the street, business men will put down the ticker tape with a sigh, light a cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose...
...Larkin Tower will stand like a defiant answer to the Tower of London in the rival city across the sea. London Tower will say, "I'm a thousand years old;" Larkin Tower will say, "Look at me." Homesick Americans all over the world will extoll this newest of Gotham's wonders; and if some stranger should ask, "Who is this Larkin? Some great general of yours?" they will stop a moment and reply, "Why no, he's the fellow who built it, I suppose...