Word: skyscraperism
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Thus bouncing around on the trunk rack the would-be assassin of the next President rode first to the hospital to unload his victims, then to Miami's skyscraper jail where he was stripped and safely locked up on the 21st floor.
Furthermore, St. Paul has just capped a $15,000,000 improvement program (modernistic new courthouse with debatable Scandinavian art, baby-31 stories* skyscraper in the First National Bank, municipal auditorium with skating rink for two professional hockey teams, Mayo-opened Bethesda Hospital, useful Miller Hospital Nurses' Home, etc.) by...
If buildings shared humans' love for revenge, the Chicago Auditorium last week would have been supremely, smugly satisfied. The old Auditorium, which President Benjamin Harrison and Adelina Patti helped dedicate 43 years ago, used to be headquarters for Chicago's social and operatic splendor. Four months after Samuel...
If the movie is saved from being a complete waste of celluloid it is by the star and her director. No one who remembers the "Merry Widow" can quite forgive Von sternberg his recent perpetrations, but "use doth breed a habit in a man" and the director has not been...
John Jay Price is a name unfamiliar to metropolitan news editors. But say "Jack Price" to an editor and his face will light up. He knows Jack Price as one of the most famed news photographers in the East, for 15 years ace of the late great New York World...