Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little bit of everything- including religion. Last month the World's Fair made public its plans for expressing "the pervading influence of religion in every phase of American life." For its Temple of Religion it set aside 50,000 square feet, a many-sided 150-foot tower of vaguely ecclesiastical appearance. The interior, without seats, would serve for lectures and discussions of noncontroversial subjects. From one organ and a carillon, music would "softly pervade" the garden surrounding the tower. The Temple's ground would not be consecrated, nor would any denominational services be held...
America (Jesuit): "Precisely that impression will be conveyed by the religion tower at the World's Fair which the Communists wish to have conveyed . . . the impression that religion is an empty thing, a meaningless 'mysticism...
...which Manker was driving was a coupe. It struck the repair truck on the side. The crash threw William M. McDonald, of Jamica Plain, repairman who was working on the tower, into a pot of hot lead. He received severe burns...
HELEN'S TOWER - Harold Nicolson- Harcourt, Brace...
Last week Author Nicolson published his uncle's biography, Helen's Tower. He now recognizes a number of contradictions in his uncle's career; his Liberalism and his love of property, his pity for the Irish peasantry and his opposition to Home Rule, his artistic bent and his fantastic taste in furnishing his country house, Clandeboye, which included everything from cannons to totem poles. These contradictions he treats with disarming irony, wit, charm of style. In his typically English dialect of delicate understatement Nephew Nicolson limns Lord Dufferin's "generosity of soul," his touching love...