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...original idea for the Eiffel Tower came from America, where a similar structure was proposed for the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Parisians jeered at Engineer Gustave Eiffel's "monster of the imagination," predicted that it would fall down. Alexandre Dumas, fils, called it a "horror." Because of "this torturing, inevitable nightmare," Guy de Maupassant fled the capital. M. Eiffel smiled, gave his personal fortune to finish the Tower, after Government funds ran out when it was one-fourth completed. The Tower attracted nearly two million cash customers in its first year, brought its builder wealth and made...
...formidable proportions appeared last night at the Lowell House Imperial Russian Ball. After several well-executed Immelman turns, all of which terrorized the fair dancers, the monster flew to the calling and clung there despondently...
Undoubtedly a major work of Spanish Romanesque art is the fresco of a fantastic monster, recently acquired and installed in Warburg Hall at the Fogg Museum. Mounted attractively on the room's south wall, it is likely to win the most casual observer with its vigorous representation and rich color, its size and dignity. The fresco represents a species of griffin, showing the head and wings of an eagle, the neck of a serpent, and the tail of a cock. Though his body is much blurred, ferocity still lives in his eye, tension in his talons, strength in his large...
...enjoys free will, he is a responsible being. He knows what he is doing and does it anyway. He is a double menace to society-in plan and in deed. Hang him, If man does not enjoy free will, he is not responsible. He is then a monster-a product of a Frankenstein civilization. Destroy him-before he breeds...
...American Way (by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart). After getting almost as much ballyhoo as a World's Fair, Kaufman & Hart's monster "spectacle" opened last week with a cast of 250. Against the animated background of an Ohio town, it tells the life-story of Martin and Irma Gunther (Fredric March and Florence Eldridge) from their arrival as immigrants, through joys and sorrows, poverty and wealth, until Martin is killed by a Nazi Bund while trying to prevent his grandson from joining...