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Contractors and speculators were filling the blocks cleared by German mines with reinforced concrete buildings which, to sensitive Florentines, resembled "overgrown bird cages" and "human beehives." Thousands of townspeople, called up by a recently organized League of Action for the Esthetic Defense of Florence, marched through the city's narrow streets, waved banners denouncing the modern "skyscrapers." They stopped to boo at particularly offensive buildings, warned Mayor Giorgio la Pira that "to spoil the beauty of Florence is to cover ourselves with dishonor." Cried one demonstrator: "Enough of this chatter! Against reinforced concrete we shall employ dynamite...
Baxter hoped that further limitations on "overgrown aspects of college sports" such as restriction of football scouting might result from talks among the three schools...
...these Sabbath invasions. Although he has never been able to capture any, he thinks that they are bedbugs. Other opinions at the Hygiene Building range from ants to mosquitos. Muzzey feels that it is a little cold for mosquitos. Hastings Hall is, however, noted for its abundance of overgrown ants...
Powerful and streamlined, the Valiant looks like an overgrown fighter, with its four jets so completely buried in the wing-roots that it seems to have no engines at all. Said one U.S. Air Force officer: "The damned thing looks as if it were going 600 m.p.h. when it's just sitting still on the runway...
...Alice's Wonderland had a railroad, it would probably look like the "Far Twittering and Oysterperch," which for years has been chuffing through the pages of Punch. Under the management of its founder, Cartoonist Rowland Emett, its carriages are apt to be outhouses, its locomotives are overgrown with vines and their mechanism recalls Victorian bathroom fixtures. The Emett Railway is driven by elderly gentlemen with droopy mustaches, cobwebs in their ears, and a quiet contempt for the world about them. When the managers of the Festival of Britain were making plans for a London Pleasure Garden in which...