Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg: My late departed father always recognized Adolf Hitler as his immediate successor. . . . Thus there comes to you, O German people, from the Field Marshal's tower in the Tannenberg Monument [tomb of von Hindenburg] this call: "Rally around and stand united behind Germany's Leader! Let all the world know that an indissoluble tie firmly unites the German people...
...Rabbit. First substantial gift came from Col. Sam Tate, president of Georgia Marble Co., who lives in a huge pink marble mansion in Tate, 60 miles north of Atlanta, and from whose quarries was cut the stone that built the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Cleveland, the Bok Carillon Tower at Mountain Lake, Fla., the Harding Memorial at Marion. He promised $30,000 worth of Georgia Pink. A nationwide competition will decide how Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer B'ar, Tar-Baby, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy will appear in Sam Tate's marble...
...when bustling Dr. Goebbels seized charge of preparations for Old Paul's funeral, shushed his son Col. Oscar von Hindenburg who wished the burial to take place in the family plot at Neudeck in East Prussia, and announced the von Hindenburg bones will lie in the Field Marshal's Tower of the huge, ugly, fortress-like memorial at Tannenberg. "Men only will be permitted to attend the funeral service," announced Dr. Goebbels. Correspondents were given privately to understand that it would be inappropriate for a German hero's obsequies to be marred by wailing women...
...always admired those painters who scale the precipitous Lowell House tower. But they don't really mind the job. It's romantic. Or at least there must be some attraction in the work because we caught one cheerful fellow, dangling from a rope some hundred feet above sea level, whistling away gaily. What was he whistling? You've guessed it. "The Man on the Flying Trapeze...
...week by the Harvard Photographic Society. After the photographs with names concealed, were judged by Arthur Hammond and Ralph Schein, well-known professional photographers it was discovered that Swift's photographs had won first, second, and third prizes, with two photographs of Adams House, and one of Lowell House Tower...