Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firing squad but escaped by swimming the Liffey. In gratitude he presented the river with a brace of swans. A mighty tosspot in his youth, he made a pilgrimage to the top of Featherbed Mountain to restore the snakes to Ireland. When he and Joyce shared a Martello tower near Dublin (Ulysses' opening scene), they protested to the British Admiralty about a warship that interfered with their view, had the ship removed...
...National Horse Show Association's 50th anniversary, it was only the 48th show. In 1890 when the old Madison Square Garden was being built and again in 1914 at the beginning of the War, no shows were held. Preceding, as it has survived, Stanford White's tower, the first horse show was held in Gilmore's Garden, a name applied to the old Harlem Railway Terminal as soon as the tracks were torn out. Dutch White was at that horse show too (he rode a Belmont mount then) and he has been at every horse show since...
...Chronicle" will be published again this year, with James W. Tower '35 taking over the duties of editor. Tower hopes to obtain many articles written by various House members, and in this way, increase the size of the book...
...Union; (2) They are on the third floor, not in the attic, kitchen, or cellar; (3) They are handsome, spacious, and airy and have a commanding view, which is not only beautiful but is useful as well, in that it includes in its scope three large, accurate tower-clocks; (4) To live in them is to live as in a club--a floor below are ping-pong tables, library, and for the Merrimaniacs a History Reading Room. Two floors below are dining room, radio, fireplace, magazines, newspapers, piano, and demi-tasses. Three floors down are barber shop and pool room...
...Eliot House a double quartet has been privately formed to sing sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth century music. The members meet weekly, usually on Fridays, for dinner in the House dining halls, then go to the tower room, and spend two hours part singing works of Byrd. Merley, Purcell, Bach. Palestries early polyphonic music and folksongs. It is possible that a concert may some time be given in the common room. but at present the group's only aim is to sing for its own amusement, at sight and without accompaniment whenever possible...