Word: skyscraperism
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The Schulte Cigar Stores Co., runner-up of the omnipresent, ubiquitous United chain, has invaded the musical field. It has bought Aeolian Hall, Manhattan's most delightful first-rank concert auditorium. With the hall itself goes the entire 17-story skyscraper structure, extending clear across from 42nd to 43rd...
In a Manhattan skyscraper on lower Broadway, an engineer pulled a switch. Simultaneously two cylinders began to turn, one in New York, and one in the Discount Building, Cleveland. Two hundred and seventy-six seconds later a photographic film of President and Mrs. Coolidge, the original of which was 600...
The idea of printing fiction in a newspaper is not new. W. L. George and his kindred penmen have long prospered in the back lots and less respectable areas of journalism. But to bring fiction out onto the very facade of newspaperdom, and rear it as a fake skyscraper among...
Despite the fact that approximately as much honest work and human conversation took place the day after the President's death as on any other week day, many editors-even editors of papers with national and international reputations-printed such extravagance as, the following: "It was probably the strangest...
Died. William Holabird, 68, architect, originator of the skeleton type of building, which revolutionized architecture and made possible the skyscraper, at Evanston, 111., after a long illness.