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Similar precautions are taken by another great depository of gold-the Bank of France. Beneath the building lies a great underground lake. In bedrock, beneath the lake, is carved a tremendous vault. Were Paris taken by the Enemy, the bank's guardians could retire to the vault, live for one month on food stored there...
Foundations were laid (1907) during the episcopate of the late Rt. Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee, first Bishop of Washington, cousin to Herbert Livingston Satterlee who is John P. Morgan's brother-in-law and a prominent money-raiser for the Cathedral. For many years the Cathedral existed only underground. Since 1912 there have been daily services in Bethlehem Chapel which is one of three, in sturdy Norman architecture, burrowed among piers which will some day bear the weight of the 262-ft. central tower. These chapels began early to receive great dust. Woodrow Wilson was a Presbyterian but his widow...
Freaks (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Director Tod Browning, one of the few truly individual directors in the U. S., is a specialist in horror. He is fond of anything that happens underground or in the dark, especially a murder. He prefers lovers who are physically deformed. He directed the late Lon Chaney in most of Chaney's best pictures. Before that he was a spieler for a sideshow, travelled twice around the world with a carnival in which he acted in blackface. Director Browning must have enjoyed making Freaks. It is one of the most macabre pictures ever filmed...
Forty feet underground in the vault of London Safe Deposit Co., the Queen-Empress used her key, locked up a packet she had brought from Buckingham Palace...
...increase. We can no more stop the growth of a city than we can stop the revolution of the earth on its axis. The measures to meet the new conditions will probably take the form of double, triple, and quadruple tracking of traffic levels, viaducts, and chambers consecting buildings underground, together with other expedients that seem like figments from the imagination of H. G. Wells. To destroy the new growth would be futile, and one is tempted to say, criminal, if it were possible. Control it we must, and the zoning law is the first method of control...