Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These fragments are parts of poems, stories, captions printed last week in a new national magazine for children. Tiny Tower, published by Tower Magazines, Inc., is to be sold, like the four other Tower products (Home, Mystery, New Movie, Love) in Woolworth stores for 10?. In addition to stories about cats, pictures of Puppety Pops and verses with dangerous rhymes, the first issue of Tiny Tower contained a page of jokes and puzzles, a page of magic tricks, cut-out patterns, innumerable marginal drawings and an advertisement, on the back page, for Royal typewriters. Because Tower executives believe that...
...office on the twenty-second floor of Chicago's Mather Tower last week had its finger on the pulse of the U. S. churches. The pulse beat briskly. Throughout the land, ladies' aid societies, missionary circles and altar guilds were becoming "Good News Broadcasters." At the rate of 11,000 per day the ladies were signing up for a simple scheme by which they would make money for their churches just by buying, and getting other ladies to buy, certain nationally-advertised products. In full swing was the "Goodwin Plan...
Editor of Tiny Tower is Bosco Cass, who uses her real name, Edna Cass Noll, only when signing the adult poetry she sometimes writes. She graduated seven years ago from Emerson College, where she gave weekly readings in Boston's Little Children's Theatre. Later Bosco Cass be came a performer in a Shubert musicomedy, a clothes model, a schoolteacher, a reader for a literary agent. Her notions for Tiny Tower she tries out on public school children. When they disapproved of a modernistic Santa Claus on the cover, she substituted an old-fashioned one, teasing...
...Dark Tower (by Alexander Woollcott & George S. Kaufman; Sam H. Harris, producer). The mystery element of this frank but funny melodrama begins in a program note in which an actor billed as Anton Stengel is described as having been a member of Max Reinhardt's companies in both Berlin and Vienna who has been working in Hollywood and is just making his bow on the Broadway stage. Sly Polemist Woollcott (The New Yorker), who relishes a good mystification, must have enjoyed inserting that bit into the humorous murder show he has written with famed Collaborator Kaufman (Of Thee...
...preceding theories have not too greatly taxed the reader's credulity, still greater trials await him. The biblical account of the construction of the tower of Babel is used as a possible example of the cooperation of men in a primitive state before any enslavement. The fact that all worked at the tower shows an absence of any class distinctions and the confusion of tongues is to be interpreted as an indication of the strife which resulted from the introduction of class distinctions...