Word: skyscrapersful
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Of course he liked U. S. skyscrapers? news gatherers asked. Henri Matisse did. "But I do not want to see them in Paris," he added abruptly, "Absolutely! Here they have developed from necessity. There is no necessity for them in Paris. Paris would have to be built all over again...
Jacques La Grange, British subject of French parentage, who has lived in the U. S. since 1916, gave an exhibition last week at Manhattan's Babcock Galleries. The paintings, of ships, of skyscrapers, occasionally of ships and skyscrapers were technically inept, showed an excellent color sense. Critics compared them...
Professor Gold-schmidt spent a few days in New York just before he came to Cambridge. He was greatly interested in the new skyscrapers there. "I think the new buildings are very beautiful," he said, "but New York is not as interesting as it used to be. Before they started...
Last year John D. Rockefeller Jr. obtained on long term lease from Columbia University three full city blocks in mid-Manhattan (48th to 51st Streets, between Fifth & Sixth Avenues). He offered to incorporate a new Metropolitan Opera House upon it in the midst of a great new commercial-cultural centre...
Esthetic as well as prodigious sounded the scheme announed over a year ago by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to include a new home for the Metropolitan Opera in a huge commercial-cultural centre envisioned by him for midtown Manhattan (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, 48th and 51st Streets). He succeeded...