Word: tower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Howard Konkle, was stricken with lockjaw. "If he lives," prayed Realtor Konkle, "I will work for the rest of my life to make money for the missionaries." The youth survived.* Last week his father announced that he will build a 5,500-room hotel which will tower 800† feet above Manhattan's street level. Ten % of the profits derived from this remarkable edifice will go to missionary work...
Divorced. Mrs. Flora Whitney Tower, daughter of Harry Payne Whitney, from Roderick Tower, son of Charlemagne Tower, onetime (1899-1902) Ambassador to Russia, onetime (1902-08) Ambassador to Germany; in Paris. She charged desertion...
...That speech is the gradual outgrowth of the development of intellect in human evolution, whereas the Bible says that all men had one speech until God confounded them to stop the building of the tower of Babel...
...same boom which raised The Miami Herald to its finale, has also elevated The Miami Daily News. Last week the News opened a new $1,500,000 home overlooking Biscayne Bay, a building marked by a great tower?270 ft. high, patterned after the Giralda Tower at Seville. In celebration of the event it published a 504-page Sunday edition, including 15 color sections of 24 pages each. There were about 1,000 illustrations and enough "news" matter to fill 35 books of ordinary size. It also carried advertising of 1,500 business concerns for an aggregate...
...host. Governor Fuller was there. So was Senator Butler, candidate for reelection. It was a get-together meeting of Senator Butler's followers and those of the late Senator Lodge-hitherto hostile. Mr. Coolidge circulated through the crowd shaking hands, and climbed a 40-ft. wooden observation tower, issuing a warning for not too many people to follow him lest it collapse. ¶ On returning to White Court, Mr. Coolidge found Secretary of State Kellogg and Assistant Secretary Grew waiting for him on the piazza, where they had been sitting for an hour and a quarter. At once...