Word: spire
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...misthinks or mistakes. Let none therefore mistake me for a TIME naggler in correcting TIME'S adequate account of Manhattan's Architectural League Exhibition. The small mistake appears in TIME'S reference to "small" Harvey Wiley Corbett, noted for his tall self and tall towers. Lofty-spire-and-pediment-building Corbett stands well over six feet on the bare foot...
...prints of lower Manhattan Island, the outstanding feature is a slim spire rising high above the shops, residences and counting houses around it-the spire of Trinity Church. Nowadays the only distant prospect of Trinity spire is up that chasm of counting houses from which residences long ago departed, Wall Street...
...least a practical excuse for existence. There was hope for more humane conditions in war; there was interest in preserving the independence of the small nation. But all the treaties of civilization have not been able to outface primitive necessity. Why hope for anything better under the spire of a single morgue of past successes--and failures in the endless striving? At best the Peace Museum is a feeble hope; at worst, a jest...
...Cass Gilbert designed the new $21,000,000 New York Life Insurance building he Gothicized its decoration, planned its gigantic foyer in the cruciform shape of a nave and transepts. Like a huge stalagmite the structure stands on the site of the old Madison Square Garden, lifts its glinting spire 617 feet above the pavements. In a banquet hall on the 14th floor a dedicatory ceremony was held, last week. President Coolidge, button-punching at the White House, flooded the feast with light. President Darwin Pearl Kingsley of the New York Life Insurance Co. made the opening address, which...
...Germans and the Japanese, both provided with copious, well thumbed guide books. Recently a Spaniard hastened in, ignored the Meridian, asked to be allowed to view nearby London through one of the small observation telescopes provided for that purpose. After peering earnestly at this dome and that spire for more than an hour, the Spaniard said: "I am on my way from Spain to Iceland, and my ship stops in London harbor for only a short time. I have now seen more of London than any of my friends. I can go on to Iceland, with a satisfied heart...