Word: skyscraperism
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Schiaparelli. "Of course we don't want pants," cried Elsa Schiaparelli in a speech before Manhattan's Fashion Group last year. "Men are already ugly enough in them without having women wear them." But Mme Schiaparelli gave women practically everything else, including dresses made of cellophane and rubber, collars of...
One year separates the births of John Augur Holabird and John Wellborn Root. their graduation from the Beaux Arts in Paris, their architectural entry into Chicago. In 1919 they were both made partners in Holabird & Roche and young John Root had caught up with old John Holabird. Although their careers...
Three days after the verdict a woman hurtled down past the windows of Manhattan's Squibb skyscraper. Her body was identified as that of Sarah A. Burke. 55, Harriman's confidential secretary for 22 years.
While no one wishes anything but success to the publicans whose duty it is to see that no liquor taxes go uncollected, the program of the A.T.U. smacks of nothing so much as simple faith in Pussyfoot Johnson's lamented Prohibition system: the use of crude strong-arm tactics as...
The Vagabond drove by hills and valleys, through mill towns and the country seats of the mighty. He tarried at metropolitan hostelries and rural inns. He ran by rivers at twilight and by factories in the glare of noon. Mountains shouldered out of the plains in front and fell away...