Word: skyscraperism
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A mirage that has been flickering for weeks over a whole city block on Manhattan's upper West Side, ceased flickering last week and stood motionless, a fixed vision. It has the shape of a skyscraper of the Babylo-American style. It is the home-to-be of the...
U. S. One of George Bellows' portraits of his mother; a group of flashy and characteristic Sargents; "Spring in a New York Skyscraper," a large bright canvas by Childe Hassam.
Massacusetts Hall, dating from 1720, and the oldest University dormitory, is one of the contributors to the Chicago Tribune's new building. The base of one wall in this skyscraper, completed this summer, is composed entirely of stones taken from buildings made famous by their history and antiquity. Imperial Rome...
And still they came, the undergraduate ants in streaming lines from railroad stations, trolley stops, subway kiosks and country roads. Into their hills they scuttled and out again, back and forth to the bookstore, the stadium, the lecture hall, the soda fountain, the library, the bootlegger's, the chapel...
Nevertheless, we cannot but believe that Dean Jones has his tongue in his cheek, as the saying goes. Architectural monstrosities are not entirely unheard of at New Haven, and we are painfully conscious of a certain synthetic symmetry not a hundred miles from Plympton Street. But we have a feeling...