Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's best-known buildings is the neo-Gothic tower of funereal black brick, topped by a gold-leafed crown, which houses the world's largest supplier of heating and plumbing equipment, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp. One of Manhattan's least-known tycoons is American Radiator's massive President and Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley, 75, a grey-haired 225-pounder, whose life story reads like Horatio Alger. At 23 he started lugging a 50-lb., cast-iron radiator sample through the Midwest, presently became the world's No. i radiator salesman. Good...
...years ago Dentist Coulson sold $25,000 worth of bonds, ordered a carillon for the Cathedral. Last year the Cathedral's North Tower, which was to hold the bells, still existed only on paper. Dr. Coulson sold the rest of his securities-$42,000 worth-and moved into an old people's home, to save enough to get the tower started so that he could hear his bells before he dies. For this good Episcopalian, last week was a happy one. Not only was the tower under way but the carillon arrived from England. The bells were installed...
When esthetes asked him how he could write in Spain with the War going on, he replied, ''It gets dark at night." The ivory tower, he told them forcibly, was no place for writers who had in democracy a cause they could fight for. If they lived, he insisted, their writing would be better for the experience gained in the fight; if they died, their deaths would make more living documents than anything they could write if they remained in ivory towers. But it is doubtful if this grim invitation had as much influence on them...
When passers-by commented that there wasn't a building in Cambridge high enough for the 100-foot tower, a firemen stepped forward and motioned ominously toward Memorial Hall. "You can never tell," he commented glumly...
Almost before the first, Bellboy thespians will assemble from 3 to 5 o'clcok Tuesday afternoon in the Tower Room for, the annual Christmas play tryouts...