Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Photoplay's office) was no surprise. Energetic, aggressive, she had shared control of the magazine with Publisher Quirk for several years. Normally softspoken, Publisher Dougherty can swear like a trooper when dealing with men. Her principal business rival is a woman-red-haired Catherine McNelis, president & publisher of Tower Magazines which include New Movie, Photoplay's most serious competitor. Publisher Dougherty does not inherit Mr. Quirk's title of editor. A board of six editors was appointed, headed by Managing Editor William T. Walsh...
...Tower Tour. Last week Speaker Garner, before leaving Manhattan for Texas, called on Alfred Emanuel Smith in the Empire State Building, spent a taut hour pleading with him to be a "good Democrat'' and join the campaign. Mr. Smith eyed him narrowly, promised nothing. The Speaker departed without being escorted to the building's 200-ft. tower by its president and shown the view. Mr. Smith only takes friends to the tower. Cartoonist Edward T. Brown of the Herald-Tribune drew a picture of Mr. Smith at the top of the building with the Democratic donkey baying below. The title...
...slightly raised extension of Capitol Hill. They spend their weekends at the Cherry Hills or Denver Country Club or on estates in the mountains. In the summer stock companies play at Elitch Gardens. Rich and poor shop at the big drygoods store of Daniels & Fisher which has a high tower like Venice's Campanile...
...Ezekiel v, i.) But the Biblical record failed to specify 1) that Ezekiel had a beard, 2) that he complied with the Lord's command, 3) whether he stayed cleanshaven or let another beard grow. When Sculptor Lee Lawrie designed the eight figures for the base of the tower of the new $10,000,000 State Capitol at Lincoln, Neb. he gave his Ezekiel a beard. Last week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless Ezekiel would be news in art. Michelangelo gave Ezekiel a round bush of a beard. Gustav Dore gave him a waist-long mare...
...George is the name workmen have given the clock in London's new Shell-Mex Tower. Old George's face is broader (25 ft.) than Big Ben's (22) ft.) but his hands are not quite so long. Nor can Old George, like Big Ben, chime...