Word: tiere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southern tier" of New York State-the lush butter-and-egg and grape juice counties along the Pennsylvania line-they all know Frank Ernest Gannett. He is the big newspaperman of the region; owns seven dailies, in Rochester, Utica, Elmira, Ithaca, Newburgh. He is a sort of little Munsey in his way, having consolidated various competing organs to make up his string, always keeping an eye open for fresh opportunities...
...piece of machinery used to lift stones; the crane became as vital a thing as a comet, a mountain or a waterfall. This is the quality that informs all his best work: his bridges poised in tensile grace over tugboats and coal barges; his factory forges; his skyscrapers lifting, tier by tier, their walls and towers and denticulated terraces into...
...Booh," yelled a shrill voice; the sound grew, deepened, spread from tier to tier until it came thundering from the roomy chests of the spectators seated on the topmost rim of the amphitheatre, under the cold Pleiades-"Booh . . . BOOOH-H. . . ." Mixed in the hoarse menace of that roar were catcalls in trembling falsetto-''Oh, Gerald " -mewings, imprecations, cries of "Bring on Wills . . ." Champion Dempsey turned the color of an embarrased orchid, crept to his seat, remained there until agile Salvadore had defeated Jessick (onetime amateur Pacific Coast lightweight champion), "Newsboy" Brown had won a decision over Frankie Grandetta...
...BLUE-H. C. McNeile ("Sapper")-Doran ($2.00). Melodrama being his métier, the author of Bull Dog Drummond fares only moderately well on the cramped stage of the short story. His happiest efforts are with humor and suspense, as Uncle James's Golf Match-a rib-splitter-and the titular tale of this collection, wherein a murder is averted by the veriest trifle. In other instances, suspense is fool's gold. The nugget of denouement fails to pan out. In still others- The Porterhouse Steak, about a starving but proud war hero; The Film That Never...
...temper before he was let into the arena. The moment he was released he became maddened and jumped into the enclosure where the amateur fighters were waiting. Quick as a flash they jumped into the grandstand. The crowd took fright and fled panic-stricken to the top tier of seats. The grandstand gave way. Four people were killed. Twenty-five were injured...