Word: skyscraperism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
"The skyscraper has already become a plague that we may well range alongside our ancient city scourges of cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis and slums. . . .
"In New York it is the collective skyscraper at the city's workaday hub that breeds more subways, less money for other needs, and more motor vehicles in the skyscrapers' service to kill more children in the children's only playground, the roadways between the sidewalks of...
The speaker was able, genial Henry H. Curran, Manhattan attorney, onetime Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, candidate for mayor of New York City in 1921, who is fast becoming a national figure as anti-skyscraper man.*
* "Thomas Alva Edison has prophesied that traffic strangulation would eventually doom the skyscraper.
SANCTUARY ! SANCTUARY !-Dallas Lore Sharp-Harper ($2.50). Most latterday naturalists collect for museums and write for the news- papers. Not so Mr. Sharp. When he lies on his stomach for hours watching a painted turtle dig her nest, or stays awake all night on the Pacific shore to hear the...