Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan was neither surprised nor puzzled by a socio-aesthetic project of which it was advised last week. The Messrs. Nast and Crowninshield were announced as head promoters of a new type of nocturnal resort, frankly modeled after the Embassy Club of London and intended to cultivate that delectable type of night life so familiar to readers of Author Michael Arlen's novel The Green Hat-iridescent conversation, light drinking (presumably, since intoxication was to be frowned upon), the smartest dancing, a maitre d'hotel who would be at once "a master of tact and a genius...
...commemorates President Washington pricks the sky, a granite bayonet; west, at the end of the Mall, the Lincoln Memorial dreams above its grave lagoon. Now there is to be another memorial in Washington- one to Theodore Roosevelt. Last week, the Roosevelt Memorial Association appropriated $1,000,000 for this project, invited famed architects, sculptors, landscape designers to compete in submitting designs. Entire freedom was given to the imaginations of the competitors, the one stipulation being that the memorial "shall adequately commemorate the character and significance of President Roosevelt." The site, already chosen, presents complexities. The scheme upon which the city...
...would be voluntary, but it was firmly hinted that, if the system were not successful, resort would be had to an obligatory levy. The "sop" to the extremes of the Government and Opposition parties seemed lost. Matters had gone so far that it was entirely possible that no fiscal project, no matter how reasonable, would be accepted by the Senate...
...American tourist travel, many of the stones have become either missing or mutilated. Its been so long too--oh, almost three hundred and fifty years now--that things have just been drifting along in Greece. It may seem unsympathetic to make any strong statement of protest against the project, for the Greeks have the ambition and the cement, and they can probably do a pretty decent job of restoration, if they don't lose interest and start a war. But the main trouble is they haven't got the Elgin marbles, the Parthenon's most distinctive ornaments...
...historical record the project is also invaluable. For the literature of previous times, publisher's sales show the popularity of a book, but there is only sporadic information as to the manner in which whole peoples reacted to it. The League of Nations book list will give the crystallized opinion of each nation on its contemparary literature...