Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cell was ready & waiting in London's Old Bailey. In the old days, a man convicted of treason would have been dragged behind a horse to the scaffold, hanged, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered. Now, after due trial, he would simply be taken to the Tower and hanged...
...from the onetime Austrian royal family's collection. The famed U.S. Rainbow Division uncovered the cache last week in a cellar at Saint Johann, Austria. Some of the contents: five major Rembrandts, including the great Large Self Portrait; Pieter Broeughael's rousing Peasant Dance and his terrifying Tower of Babel; Velasquez' portrait of the Infanta Maria Margarita; Rubens' Saint Jerome. The Nazi custodian of this treasure, one Major Fabian, had a request to make: for "taking such good care of the collection" didn't 15 of his officers rate free tuition at an Austrian university...
...Chattanooga's municipal airport one day last week, a group of excited Tennessee schoolmarms & masters (age range: from 20s to 70s) took to the air, 29 of them for the first time. After zooming around for 20 minutes they were shown why a plane flies, how an airport tower operates, how weather and communication services are conducted. The occasion was the first of a series of "institutes" to prepare teachers for a state-wide program of aviation instruction in all public schools, from first grade through college...
What she got, besides that: a chariot ride to the circus, behind four "Arabian stallions"; a ride on an elephant; lunch at the Colony; tea with Cinemactor Ray Milland at the Waldorf Towers; dinner at the Stork Club; champagne at El Morocco; a night at the Ritz Tower (she telephoned everybody she knew in New York to come over for drinks); backstage calls on Fredric March and Beatrice Lillie; an armful of roses, a $125,000 ruby necklace (for 24 hours), a $65 hat (for keeps), and "the works" in a beauty parlor...
...When Hoffmann was taking the real Hitler's picture in front of the Eiffel Tower in 1940, the Fiihrer reportedly cracked: "Take this one, Hoffmann; then the next one in Buckingham Palace and the next in front of the skyscrapers...