Word: skyscrapersful
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¶ Where Spaniards looked for gold and life-everlasting and pirates later lolled at ease amid hidden booty, U. S. tycoons of today have built winter mansions and game preserves. The Penney estate at Belle Isle, though it views Miami's skyscrapers across Biscayne Bay, is as secluded as...
Two new streets will be cut through the three blocks, parallel with Fifth Avenue, one of them leading to the rear doors and ramps of the Opera. Along these new streets, and through all the rest of the property, Mr. Rockefeller will erect new buildings for old (skyscrapers, hotels, stores...
Gloria Swanson, interviewed for London's weekly Sketch, said: "Skyscrapers drain their inhabitants of colour, and gradually kill them. . . . Half of the women of America are sex-starved. Their husbands cease to be lovers almost as soon as they are married. . . . The sex-starvation of those women is the...
"I am also greatly pleased with what I have seen of your country landscape architecture and city skyscrapers, while I foresee a promising future for American art," said Professor Pauli when questioned further on his impressions of his first close acquaintance with America
The room they saw modernistically designed by Junior Leaguer Mrs. George Draper is bright, undeniably attractive. Rubber plants and Venetian blinds somehow suggest Bermuda, California. There are white-washed walls, blue carpets, orange velvet chairs. From the windows the Junior Leaguers gazed rhapsodically on Manhattan's skyscrapers.