Word: towers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take advantage of every circumstance Fortune throws his way. Apprised of his father's approaching assassination, he assumes a "hands off" attitude, profits by another's crime. But, in the end, his "philosophy" is revealed to him as a mere ra- tionalization of the beastly Karamazov nature, whereupon his tower of reason topples into madness. With two love stories, these three threads are woven into an intricate stage pattern, directed by Jacques Copeau, who came to the U. S. for that special purpose, enacted by a cast including Alfred Lunt, Clare Eames, Lynn Fontanne, Dudley Digges, George Gaul, Edward Robinson...
...church will stand at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street.* Its tower will be 375 feet high. It will cost $4,000,000. Charles Collens and Henry Pelton are the architects. The inside will be Romanesque, the outside Gothic. Elevators will run up through 20 stories of women's rooms, sewing-rooms, lecture-rooms, schoolrooms, offices in the tower; stairs will go down to robing-rooms, Sunday school rooms, choir-rooms, locker-rooms, kitchens in the basement. There will be bolwing alleys and a basketball court - details which and do not reflect Dr. Fosdick, but are a counterpart...
...proposed Larkin tower in New York is to be 1208 feet high. It will overtop the Woolworth building and the Eiffel tower, and it will seriously threaten the limits of human credibility. It is to be an office building, with the four top stories given over to sightseers; but from the architect's drawing there is to be no mother-of-pearl gilding such as makes the Singer building gaudy. It is to be strictly business...
...wonders if Mr. Larkin does not feel something of the pride which moved Cheops when he built the pyramid which was rather a sensation in his day, of Nebuchadnezzar when he ordered the hanging gardens. There will be no awful monument to a heath on god atop the Larkin tower, and no pleasure palace for a buried king. Nearly a quarter of a mile above the level of the street, business men will put down the ticker tape with a sigh, light a cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose; and secretaries...
...Larkin Tower will stand like a defiant answer to the Tower of London in the rival city across the sea. London Tower will say, "I'm a thousand years old;" Larkin Tower will say, "Look at me." Homesick Americans all over the world will extoll this newest of Gotham's wonders; and if some stranger should ask, "Who is this Larkin? Some great general of yours?" they will stop a moment and reply, "Why no, he's the fellow who built it, I suppose...