Word: schlagers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to Postauburn representative Robert Schlager, the development company plans to fill the three new stories with local commercial offices and to improve the existing post office...
...Stephen Schlager Elm Grove...
...more trouble. Last week the M.T.A. pushed L.I.R.R. President Frank Aikman Jr. into early retirement, provoking charges from many commuters that Aikman is being made a scapegoat for the mistakes of Dr. William J. Ronan, the M.T.A. chairman, who is staying on. Aikman was replaced by Walter L. Schlager Jr., an executive from the New York City subway system. Harold J. Pryor, the verbose head of four L.I.R.R. union locals, warned that he would give Schlager 15 days to improve labor-management relations. Was he making another of his many strike threats? Could be, said Pryor...
Then along came the apparel merchants and an architect named Walter W. Ahl-schlager, 41, who had created Roxy's cinema cathedral in Manhattan, apparently out of golden dough. They would show Chicago something to write postcards about-the largest and tallest building in the world-75 stories and 845 feet high . . . containing 4,650,000 sq. ft. of floor space . . . costing $45,000.000 . . . covering two blocks with its base . . . comprising a 23 story "apparel-mart" near the ground . . . above that 22 stories of office space . . . above that a 1,000 room hotel ... a garage containing space...
...scale, extending from the chest to the knees. The sword arm, from the wrist to the shoulder, was then padded and bandaged to three times its natural size, and the hand guarded by a thick leathern gauntlet. Lastly, a pair of spectacles, rimmed with metal, protected the eyes. The schlager, or duelling sword, is then placed in his hand - a nasty looking weapon about a yard and a quarter in length, quite blunt but for about ten inches at the end, where it is double-edged and as sharp as a razor. Thus accoutred, our hero, being the challenging party...