Word: ade
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Wertheim's, Germans firmly believe, is the "Largest Department Store in the World," sells everything from toothpicks to limousines. Its block-long façade contains 36 large, shimmering plate-glass windows. Abruptly, at a mysterious signal, out from pockets leaped stones, smashed every Wertheim pane and many another...
...South Side to witness the wrigglings of Fatima ("The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter") on the Midway, to gasp at gorgeous pyrotechnic displays, to parade through the handsome plaster buildings of Messrs. McKim, Mead & White at the Columbian ("World's Fair") Exposition, Reporters Lillie West Brown and George Ade shared a desk in the city room of the Chicago Daily News. Reporter Ade rose to be a special writer, then dramatic editor, then conductor of a column, finally a free-lance humorist (Fables in Slang) and playwright (The Sultan of Sulu). But Mrs. Lillie West Brown?who preferred...
Four columns wide across the front page of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Public Ledger was spread the preliminary design for the façade of the latest Curtis benefaction to Philadelphia: a $4,000,000 civic cultural center for opera, symphony, drama. Already, the accompanying announcement read, a site had been purchased by Publisher Curtis at a cost of $2,000,000: practically the whole of a city block located opposite the Academy of Natural Sciences...
...Court's new home should look like: a classic temple of white stone 385 ft. deep, on each side of which abut lower rectangular wings. The temple-front is roofed to a slight peak above massive Corinthian columns, this portal and the wings to present a façade 304 ft. wide...
...Hurst Recalls:", "Irvin S. Cobb Recalls:", "Mary Roberts Rinehart Recalls:"- friends of Bob Davis pinch-hitting in his column. The list grew so long-Ben Ames Williams, Rex Ellingwood Beach, Newton Booth Tarkington, Ring W. Lardner, Sam Heilman, Sophie Kerr, Dorothy Canfield, Henry Louis Mencken, Montague Marsden Glass, George Ade, etc. etc.-that the Sun's Bob Davis column promised to become a complete parade of U. S. literati...