Word: skyscraperism
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But, to the average Bostonian, the bridge, like a tower or a skyscraper, will be something big that he can point out to newcomers something with dimensions a little larger than anything else the newcomer has seen.
What Every Woman Knows. In one sense, of course, Lisa Fonssagrives would never stop. If her face should disappear from the magazines tomorrow, other faces would crowd to take its place and the American public would scarcely know the difference. For the model is more than an individual; she has...
By the '30s St. Laurent's law firm occupied ten rooms in the Price Building, Quebec City's only skyscraper. St. Laurent was elected president of the Canadian Bar Association and ranked by lawyers throughout the country as one of the three best in Canada.
Along West Madison Street, within sight of the handsome Daily News skyscraper, sprawls the noisome slum of saloons, hash-joints, missions and flophouses that Chicago calls Skid Row. One morning last June, as he picked his way to work through Skid Row's reeking garbage and broken bottles, and...
Scatter-Gun. Meriweather lived in a cellar until he developed a "skyscraper shadow complexion," and he dieted rigorously on Martinis, barbiturates and tongue-on-rye. Thus able to pass as a Northerner, Ol´ Fearless invaded Manhattan. His grim findings: gangsters, muggings, class warfare, prejudice, "rapine and horrible death ... at...