Word: tower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TOWER-William Butler Yeats- Macmillan ($2.25). Of contemporary poets many are bold, curious, fascinating; few are enduring. One of the few is Yeats, who in his triumphant youth brandished the wild beauty of Ireland with rich imagery of folklore, and in his reluctant 60's writes _a slim volume on old age reduced to platonic abstractions. What shall I do with this absurdity 0 heart, 0 troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a god's tail? But even age cannot undo with argument Yeats' fantastic imagination: Valley, river...
...Uruguay. It was dusk when the Hoovers steamed into Montevideo from Buenos Aires. Lights flashed on the city's tallest tower: "Welcome to the successor of Washington. Welcome to President Hoover...
Meanwhile work was being started to remove the chimes presented by Mr. Rockefeller to his Park Avenue Baptist Church from that church's tower. Residents of the expensive apartment neighborhood complain that chimes disturb their Sabbath sleep...
...Sovereign, proclaim it again at Charing Cross, carry tidings to the Lord Mayor of London, and repeat the proclamation yet again in the Close, adjoining Chancery Lane, and finally at the Royal exchange, whereupon simultaneous salutes would boom from St. James's Park and the Tower of London...
...sailed around the Eiffel Tower, won a 100,000 franc prize. His experiments he describes in My Airships, published in 1904 by the Century Co. TIME will pay $5 for a copy of My Airships...