Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TOWER OF TERROR-Joseph I. Lawrence-Macaulay...
...tradition the true London Cockney was "horn within sound of Bow bells" ringing from the tower of St. Mary-le-Bow Church in Cheapside. The church's name came from the "bows" (arches) on which its first building was raised above London's swamps. In the 19th Century...
...Church's great bell rang travelers into town at. nine every night, called Dick Whittington back to become Lord Mayor of London. Slowly its 17th Century Tower built by lamed Sir Christopher Wren gathered new bells. Slowly the twelve gathered green patinas of verdigris, cracked; the clappers rusted, the machinery clogged. The Tube under the church shook the steeple dangerously. In 1928. after 250 years, the Bow bells fell silent...
...June day in Chicago's history (100.1°) occurred last week. Sluicing his throat with iced drinks at his home in Wheaton, Ill., Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, gave thought to his employes sweltering in that magnificent Gothic pile on Michigan Avenue, the Tribune Tower. Big-framed Col. McCormick marched to the telephone, called Superior 0100, got Holmes Onderdonk, Tribune building superintendent, on the wire. Said Publisher McCormick to Superintendent Onderdonk, in effect: "I want you to work up a plan for air-conditioning the Tribune Tower. Find out all about it-what systems...
Away up in his green copper crusted tower in Memorial Hall the Vagabond stirred uneasily on his crumby couch and dug his knuckles into smarting eyes to shut out the light. He yawned painfully, stretched his cramped limbs, and turned over...