Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...corruption in oil and in the so-called Department of Public Health which is so crooked that it even gets graft out of roach powder. Murders, lewd women, drunken revels, coarse dialogue are thrown in to spice the story. The scandals begin to leak out in Washington. Senatorial investigations threaten, but the "Chief" stands by his friends. There is, of course, a woman in the story. A sort of Platonic affection grows up between her and the President. She tries to make him see that his friends are grafters and crooks, but he refuses to believe that they would...
...impending disaster. The country cannot continue under such a state of nerves and under such a dictatorship indefinitely. Something must happen-assassinations, wars or another revolution. It is not only that the conditions menace Italy, but in the passion of their present irrational attitude the Italians certainly threaten to create a sore spot on the face of the Continent...
TIME earned first place among the five magazines we receive because it never wasted a word. Now you seriously threaten your own position in this home at least by devoting five whole columns to an advertisement (?) of your own. You are still favored, but we must warn you that further wastes of good space such as this will lower your rating...
...Pastor's story is self-defense. L. H. Nutt, elder in his church, says he heard Chipps threaten bodily harm to the Pastor. One Carl Glaze, 14, only witness of the tragedy, has signed a statement declaring he saw Chipps shot to death in an anteroom to the pastor's study...