Word: towers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call "the richest square mile on earth," ignoring Wall Street. The King-Emperor himself cannot enter "The City" without the Lord Mayor's permission. Neither can British troops. At any hour of day or night the Lord Mayor may have private audience with George V or access to the Tower of London. His diamond sceptre recalls that London was a sovereign city before England had a Throne. In return for all this glory, to which he is elected for a term of only one year, the Most Worshipful the Lord Mayor is expected to spend three times his salary...
Hearst Jr. is vivacious, modest but not diffident. He is married and lives in Manhattan's Ritz Tower. When he drives his special-bodied Cadillac to the American office every traffic cop grins at him gratefully, and he stops often to pass the time of day. His license plates bear the simple legend 1. The car of his beauteous young wife, San Francisco's one-time debutante Alma Walker, has the license number 2. Hearst Jr. has not forgotten his Hollywood friends; Cinemactors Norman Kerry and Charles Farrell are among his intimates. With Songwriter Irving Berlin, Lawyer Richard Knight...
...little early to talk about Yale, games, even to think about them. In fact the Vagabond was so pleasantly surprised with the news last evening that he lay awake all night listening to the four faced clock tick just over his bed in Memorial Tower. After this warning against undue premature excitement there is no reason for not going now into a few details...
...tower was the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Modelled after the Washington Monument, its 32 stories rise 447 ft. 3 in. above street level from a larger square base two stories in height. Last August when Secretary of War James William Good helped dedicate it, it was ecstatically dubbed the "Washington Monument of the Northwest...
...love for art, however, still remains. It was he who had the inspiration for the Foshay Tower. His home and office are cluttered with statues...