Word: subterraneanly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after ponderous box of dull gold ingots was hauled up from the vaults of the Bank of England last week, rushed across the Channel to Paris, then lowered down, down into the vaults of the Bank of France, buried so deep that above them lies a subterranean lake...
Ultimo is an imaginary record, written by a man of those far-future times, of what life was like to subterranean man. For as the ice spread and the earth grew colder, civilization either died or dug. First it "established itself around the equator, a civilization of peoples with one dominating idea-to continue to exist. Great circular cities were built consisting of low buildings which hugged the ground . . . cities like gigantic mushrooms, walled and roofed in materials magnifying the little warmth that still emanated from the sun, shutting out snow and cold." Finally even these failed. "Into the frozen...
...goings & comings you follow Manager Orcham through his microcosmic hotel, its daily & nightly functionings. crises; from the subterranean power plant to the eighth luxurious floor. Anything, from a miscarriage to a murder, can happen there; almost everything does. Author Bennett shows how carefully set a stage the hotel guest sees; shows what hard and clever work goes on behind the scenes. After reading Imperial Palace you will see your next hotel dining room, grill room, lobby with a fresh...
...brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object the freedom of Ireland. There was good reason, too, for their being secret. "All small nationalties submerged in great empires tend to develop a subterranean political life. It is impossible to fight great battles openly, and the very character of their ideals makes open propaganda difficult. Whatever may be said against the secret societies of a generation ago, their members were not self-seeking and their ideals were defensible. "There has been a change...
...courtly government. In one of these he planned to insert a microphone strong enough to stand being lugged up the side of a mountain, delicate enough to record the clamor of tiny corridors, the swarming of young male and female ants, the uproar of sexless, wingless insects building subterranean castles for their queen...