Word: skyscraperism
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A month ago, the Consistory of New York's Collegiate Reformed Dutch churches proposed to sell Dr. Sizoo's church* for some $3,750,000 to a corporation which planned to build a 50-story skyscraper on the lot. This sum, they said, would pay off the church...
It was that first Pacific Coast bureau that got us started on the job of telling you what a huge industrial development the Coast was headed for. Our on-the-spot correspondents sensed it, and repeatedly told our skyscraper editors about it. After a while we found ourselves in the...
¶ With the Marines at Tarawa, a combat film which is almost as brief, terrible and final as a jump off a skyscraper.
"Hold That Blonde," infested with both Bracken and Veronica Lake, supplies two answers to this question. In the first place, it is a source of endless pleasure to see Bracken hanging by his finger tips from about the eightieth floor of a New York skyscraper while his hands are pounded...
Hold That Blonde! (Paramount) is a direct lineal descendant of one of Hollywood's biggest breadwinners during the '20s: the Harold Lloyd comedies of confusion. Eddie Bracken, in a pretty good modern imitation of the Lloyd hurlyburly, teeters precariously on the ledge of a skyscraper, wrestles with a...