Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Adams Delano, famed U. S. architect (Delano & Aldrich), speaking before the Architecture Club of London, advised English architects against erecting skyscrapers. Said he: "Americans are gradually being crushed by these monsters. . . . Unless you are ready to swallow our civilization whole, it would seem a mistake to copy any part...
...skeptical," said he. "There are some people so ignorant they still believe that Noah crowded two of each species of animals into the Ark. . . . here are others who think that Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale. ... I have studied two kinds of whales, and found that it is impossible for either of them to swallow a man whole, and anyway, no man could live inside a whale...
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...inevitability of this process is a bitter pill to swallow for those few members of our own civilization that appreciate the true values lying beneath the chaos that prevails in China today. But with transportation and communication as far developed as they are now this Westernization cannot be long delayed, and it may be consoling to the friends of China that it may turn out for the best. For the Golden Age of the Empire is a thing of the past and if the country that still treasures its remains is to enjoy the benefits that a younger culture...
Prohibition was a subject worthy of the public prints. "The Act of Parliament to prevent the selling of Gin, being to take place on Tomorrow, Mother Gin lay in State yesterday, at a Distiller's Shop in Swallow Street near St. James's Church; but to prevent the ill Consequences of such a Funeral, a neighboring Justice took the Undertaker, his Men, and all the Mourners into Custody...