Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cathedral idea enthralls the minds of U.S. tycoons, spreads from cinema to insurance potentates. Therefore when famed Architect Cass Gilbert designed the new $21,000,000 New York Life Insurance building he Gothicized its decoration, planned its gigantic foyer in the cruciform shape of a nave and transepts. Like a huge stalagmite the structure stands on the site of the old Madison Square Garden, lifts its glinting spire 617 feet above the pavements. In a banquet hall on the 14th floor a dedicatory ceremony was held, last week. President Coolidge, button-punching at the White House, flooded the feast with...
Aviation. To the pilot, aviation may mean a job, a salary. To the pedestrian, it may mean dark specks droning toward the horizon. To the entrepreneur, it means stocks, incorporations, earnings, mergers, an infant industry for skilled hands to shape. One such shaping took form last week with the incorporation of United Aircraft and Transport, Inc. A holding company, it will own all stock of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. (Wasp, Hornet motors), Chance Vought Corp. (Corsair planes) Boeing Airplane and Transport Co. (manufacturers and transporters). Capitalization: 1,000,000 shares 6% preferred, par $50; 2,500,000 common. President: William...
Last week Sculptor Brancusi won his case. In its decision the Customs Court dogmatically defined art: "It is a work of art by reason of its symmetrical shape, artistic outlines and beauty of finish." Even the most wretched of logicians knows enough not to repeat the same term in both subject and definition ("art" -"artistic outline"). But Sculptor Brancusi had his money refunded...
...smoke that was the Schubert Centennial there took shape one definite, perhaps permanent, project which showed itself last week for the first time under the name of the Schubert Memorial, Inc. On the notion that Schubert lived his life unrecognized, that today many talented young U. S. musicians are threatened with the same plight, it organized for the purpose of establishing a contact between them and "the representative musical public." Baldly, its plan is to sponsor debuts, dress them glamorously that many and important listeners will be attracted, including-and it was severely stressed-leading critics whose verdicts supposedly...
...Vagabond was well supplied with good will in fact, so thorough going was his genial spirit that it included even Uncle Albert who last year donated a smoking stand in the shape of a purple camel with an ash tray on each hump and a stack of matches in each car. The result of his visit to the pedlars and pushcarts of the metropolis across the Charles was tremendously successful. For the Vagabond's wood-closet is now piled high with assorted containers of everything from velocipedes and sewing machines to a porcelain statuette of Buddha for Aunt Agatha...