Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spirited is the English translation of Faust just made by Princeton's Professor George Madison Priest and published last week (Covici Friede, $5). The turning of the tide of battle between fire-puffing devils and valiant angels who attack them by scattering roses, Professor Priest translates thus...
...Banker Morgan resides on Madison Avenue in the block bounded by Park Avenue, 36th & 37th Streets. In addition to the Morgan home, library and museum the block is occupied by: Brother-in-Law Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Socialites Lyman J. Delano and Edwin Wright Sheldon, Drs. Edwin A. Spies and Israel Fleiss, the new Union League Club...
Died. Colonel William Aiken Starrett, 54, builder of skyscrapers, president of Starrett Corp.; after a series of apoplectic strokes; in Madison, N. J. One of five brothers, all builders or architects, he successively founded Thompson-Starrett Co. (construction), Starrett & Van Vleck architects). Starrett Bros. & Eken, builders of the Empire State Building and nucleus of his holding company, Starrett Corp. As chairman of the War Industries Board's construction committee, Builder Starrett directed the erection of all cantonments, hospitals. Army bases in the U. S. To Japan he introduced special teel frame buildings designed to resist arthquakes. An articulate champion...
When heavy-jowled Stanford White, one of the country's most talented architects, was commissioned to design the original Madison Square Garden, an arena in New York to house circuses, horse shows, prize fights, dog shows, a beer garden and cabaret, he found it suitable to clap a copy of Seville's Giraldo Tower on one side and then get his good friend Augustus St. Gaudens to set a 13-ft. nude Greek goddess tiptoe on the Moorish-Gothic-Renaissance cathedral belfry. Beyond its inappropriateness, the Garden tower was a lovely thing and New York cherished her Diana...
...approached, the men under the steel cars became attentive. Attentive also to what was going to happen at the quarries were scientists tending earthquake recorders at Madison, Wis., Ann Arbor, East Lansing, St. Louis, Buffalo, New York City, Washington. Chronometers of everyone interested were set to check with a radioed time signal from the Naval Observatory at Washington...