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...strange tribe of Indians ruled over by a squad of two hundred white women. Here is, indeed, a case of snarled complexes--Kawaian, Amazonian, perhaps even a "Green Mansion" complex. The details of the story were given to the party by a sea-faring man in a waterfront saloon of Marseilles. He had once travelled near the land of the multitudinous queens and had been told of their ex-stance by down-river Indians who knew of it from hearsay. With the facts thus established beyond a shadow of a doubt, the success of the expedition is almost certain...
...million dollars was subscribed to fight the strike. "We went to the District Attorney," continued Captain Dollar, " and said to him: ' If something isn't done about this tomorrow evening you are going to be strung up to a telegraph pole.' There was never another man assaulted on the waterfront of San Francisco...
...ferry and the toll are forgotten and the antique bridge is about to be replaced. Times and faces have changed; M. I. T. controls the waterfront, and it proposes to name the new structure the Technology Bridge, with an architectural central span, the gift of the Institute, as a memorial to its World War heroes. Harvard heartily approves, and cedes its name-claim with good will; in fact it would do so cheerfully if only the new span be wide enough for crews to pass under without danger in the races...
...characterizations of cities is as good as that of people. Miss hurst make the reader see the huge undeveloped sprawliness of St. Louis as its grew back from its waterfront to there stolid respectability of kingshighway, the mediocrity of Page avenue, where Lilly move when the war and her father's money came, the verging of the flat city with the clayey surrounding. country. Similarly. The cinema screen of the book's pages, are thrown flashes of all the aired sections of New York Washington Square, Grimace Park. Grand Central Station while it still held the informality of partial construction...
...received. The power house is today the outstanding ugly feature of the Charles River front. The three handsome Freshman Dormitories would make the tract very pretty were it not for this ugly structure. The construction of the "H" would make the plant an addition to the appearance of the waterfront instead of a blot. The giant "H" would catch the eye of every passer-by, consequently causing the plant itself to be unnoticed. Thus, the entire appearance of that area would be changed; ruined today by the ugly power house, it would then be impressive and beautiful through the Freshman...