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Word: spire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prize of one straw-hat sandwich at Jimmie's has been offered to any player who succeeds in Knocking off the spire of Memorial Hall. The betting odds are 1492 to 1919 in favor of the CRIMSON and the largest crowd in history is expected to witness the complete demolition of the blasphemers of the sacred "transcript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON AND LAMPY CLASH TODAY | 5/27/1919 | See Source »

...found the soul of Bordeaux, that something which exists in every old city and distinguishes it from all other cities. He has the external features, the names of streets and parks, the jangling of old bells, the seasoned stone of the buildings, bridges and docks, and the "spire-shattered" sky. But frequently he seems to have been too busy being an imagist to be a poet as well. I do not mean to disparage imagism save when it becomes a conscious pose. Then it goes in search of the strange angle of vision, the unheard-of adjective, the interpretation...

Author: By W. A. Norris ., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 1/8/1917 | See Source »

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