Word: towers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acts which will be introduced during the course of the carvinal is a surprise number in which P. A. Escher '27, a well-known Swiss skater, will take the leading role. He will be assisted by six others including R. L. Hapgood '25, Sargent Kennedy '28, and R. B. Tower Jr. '28 and several Dartmouth undergraduates...
Satan loomed tall as a tower; his eye was a jewel, his voice was thunder. On the stage of the Chicago Auditorium he stood, for the first time this year. He was Feodor Chaliapin, giant Russian basso, appearing in Boito's Mefistofele. Louder than ever boomed the great voice; the mountainous man, lithe for all his bulk, stalked, the incarnation of sinister and engaging evilness upon the boards. In one of his greatest roles he outdid himself. He suited his bones to the music of his throat, executed a physical fugue; in the Brocken scene, he boiled, surged like...
...enforced this year will be officially explained and illustrated at a special game to be held in Hemenway Gymnasium on Friday night. Two teams from the University squad will play an informal game which will be interrupted by the coaches to explain different points. Coach Wachter and Mr. Oswald Tower, a prominent official, will probably make short explanatory speeches. After the game is over, the floor will be opened to a general symposium at which questions about the rules will be discussed by New England referees and coaches who are expected to be present...
...TIME of Nov. 17, mention was made on the Sport page of one ''Childe Harold Grange" who "to a dark tower came, at Stagg Field, Chicago." Browning, to be sure, mentions in one of his poems a certain Childe Roland who came to a dark tower; but no Childe Harold ever went near a dark tower, to my knowledge. There was a Childe Harold, mentioned by Lord Byron, who . . . wends through many a pleasant place, Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase...
...second prize was awarded to the extraordinary new structure of the American Radiator Co. on West 40th Street. It is a great black tower, looking not unlike a pile of coal, culminating in glowing gold and yellow, like the flames of an unbanked fire. One of its most notable features is its display basement, where stokers in uniform show heating appliances in actual operation in an elaborately decorative furnace room with a vaulted ceiling...