Word: towers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cynosure; and, one night, after "Old Tom" had been tolled 101 times* a vast throng of women, some dressed in the best that Jay's and Liberty's could afford, others in the latest and most gorgeous and flimsy from Paris, began to enter under the imposing tower on St. Aldates into "Tom Quad," illuminated by hundreds of lanterns. Through the archway in the far, left-hand corner, out into the older part of the college toward the Meadows, familiar music greeted the visitors. In the great Dining Hall, none other than Vincent Lopez "and his band," hale...
...poet also of the other world, he gibbers Spider, Spider, of madness, "hairy-lipped, a crab from Hades." Arabia Felix and The Tower of Genghis Khan are old opiates. He is a man for hot color-read Whim Alley; and sweet peace-see Old Meadows. If there are full-stature poets in the U. S., and it is demonstrable that there are, Hervey Allen, young Charleston, S. C, schoolteacher, is well to the fore in their company...
...comment, showed the "meteoric" growth of Smith from 14 to 2,000 students, showed the evolution of female habiliments from trailing black cambric skirts to bloomers, showed a now dignified class dean riding the first bicycle ever seen on the Smith campus, showed geographical changes: -Where our stately buildings tower...
...edifice to house the effigy of Ste. Anne. Famed French architects were secured, designs made. In September, 1924, Cardinal Begin laid the cornerstone. The new church will be, it is stated, one of the most exquisite churches in North America. Its length will be 325 ft., its steeples will tower 245ft...
...Bondage. Then Brigham clapped eyes on The Book of Mormon, a surprising document "translated" by one Joseph Smith Jr. from cryptic gold plates evangelically supplied out of a New York hillside called Cumorah. Therein it was set forth that two tribes had shipped direct to America from the Tower of Babel. The presence of Red Indians in America "proved" this. Joseph Smith Jr. had been commissioned the Lord's special and prophetic latter-day representative to re-establish Mor- monism...