Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the War has the British Press had a story quite so theatrical. It started month and a half ago with a sudden rush to buy sixpenny tickets for the Tower of London. Londoners in swarms learned that there was a real prisoner incarcerated in the Tower, held under the Official...
Secrets Act. Here was a real attraction to place beside the Crown Jewels, Henry VIII's armor and the spot where Anne Boleyn lost her head. Playing up the mysterious Prisoner for all he was worth, London's Daily Express printed a picture showing Tower Green packed with spectators gawking at a tall soldierly figure in a Glengarry bonnet, inked out in silhouet. Even more tickets were sold at the news that the face under the Glengarry bonnet was young and good looking...
...protest in the name of Jehovah against this young officer being committed to the Tower...
...conclusive meeting was held in the 32nd story of the Aztec Tower of the Union Guardian Building. John K. McKee, representing the R. F. C., laid down the terms. The long wrangle ended. It was agreed to furnish $5,000,000 of new capital and promptly a telegram from the Comptroller of the Currency: "Due to the many complaints registered against the plan for a new bank . . . have deemed it advisable ... to appoint conservators . . . until the confusion of thought can be eliminated...
...morning in the tower. The Vagabond is awake. Outside the birds are singing in nasty, shrill voices; horrid, sticky buds disfigure the trees; below, a surpassingly unattractive girl is passing. It is cold, and revoltingly early. The Vagabond ponders a moment, with a puzzled look; suddenly it comes to him: his inner standard has returned...