Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some years ago Mr. Mikimoto bought a prominent hill and dreamed of erecting on it a hollow tower which he proposed to fill with pearls as a farmer fills an elevator with grain. "My reason," Mr. Mikimoto used to say, "is to give pleasure to women of generations yet unborn who will wear pearls from my tower-Mikimoto pearls...
...Vagabond knows, three-hundred-and-five feed long, one-hundred-and-thirteen feet wide, and the tower rises one-hundred-and-ninety feet above the Delta, but he is not appalled by that. It was on this Delta that Josiah Quincy paid his sixpence in 1821 to shoot at a turkey, the same stately Josiah Quincy who made the parting senior, having the customary cake and wine at Wadsworth House with his president, feel as though he had drunk "with Prince Metternich at Johannesberg a bottle of his choicest vintage." There on the Delta the Freshmen and Sophomores held their...
...Fellows who considered Memorial Hall "the most valuable gift which the University has ever received, in respect alike to coast, daily usefulness, and moral significance." He would remind no one of Professor James, who lecturing in Emerson D, would glance across the heads of his listeners at the Gothic tower and exclaim: "Gentlemen, take Memorial Hall for instance. What else could you take it for!" Nor would he visit Memorial Hall sixty years after, to see the deserted dining hall, cramped Sanders Theatre, the squalid ruin of false tiffany. For the Vagabond sees only the frost-blushed...
...Edna St. Vincent Millay could afford now to foist off on her sympathetic public almost any callow piece of juvenilia. But The Princess Marries the Page is surprisingly, delightfully neither callow nor juvenile. A Princess, "the most beautiful Princess you have ever seen." is reading in her tower retreat. A saucy page, who has climbed up to the window ledge, interrupts her by tootling on his flute. Their little flirtation is doing nicely when he confesses that he is no page but a spy. Soldiers are looking for him. When they enter he hides; the Princess is in process...
...first meeting of the German Sing-Song, an informal club of undergraduates who gather to sing German songs and popular music, will be held in the Lowell House Tower Room tonight at 7 o'clock, J. MacL. Hawkes '26, announced yesterday. The organization plans to continue the activities of last year, such as the radio broadcasts, and the talks by guests; concerts will be given by the members before clubs which desire them...