Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice Brooklyn-born Sydney Franklin (Frumkin) drove home a sire Estoque, and at each thrust a raging Toro died on the sand of Madrid's Plaza de Toros. But Spaniards jeered and pointed. Reason: Franklin's new bullfighting suit was salmon pink...
...designs in the past: 1) Arthur Ware-A triumphal arch, axised on Broadway with an esplanade enclosed by a peristyle, flanked by two buildings, one dedicated to the Army, one to the Navy. 2) Christopher Grant La Farge-An ornamental arrangement of pylons and railings framing a reception plaza, a fountain playing in a great reflecting pool, the whole scaled low, designed simply, keeping the Broadway vista open. 3) Eric Gugler-A granite shaft 800 ft. high flanked by two large armillary spheres, one symbolic of the celestial globe, one of the planets; semicircular steps 400 ft. wide from...
...bull-breeder, a Madrid police official, a Matador (sword man), a Picador (lance man), a Banderillero (dart man), a member of the association of Bull-Fighting Impresarios, a sports writer, a veterinary surgeon, a season-ticket holder at the Madrid Plaza ring, all under the chairmanship of Madrid's Director of Public Safety, have been sitting as a high national committee to consider and meticulously represcribe the details of Spain's great national pastime, bull-killing...
Died. Harry St. Francis Black, 66, Manhattan realty tycoon, board chairman of U. S. Realty & Improvement Co., a director of the Missouri, Kansas, Texas R. R., Savoy Plaza Corp., Bowman-Bilt-more Hotels Corp., National City Bank (Manhattan); in bed at his home near Huntington, L. I., by his own hand (re-volver...
...Over the entire development will tower a great 60-story office building in which 27 broadcasting studios will be located, extending from the west side of the plaza through to Sixth Avenue. From this central office building a grand corridor, about three stories in height, will run to the other office buildings from Fifth to Sixth Avenue" (provisionally, six 30-story buildings, two 12-story...