The Devil in the White City — Vocabulary
Erik Larson
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He issued instructions that anticipated by many years Louis Sullivan's famous admonition that form must follow function.p.24.8alternate pages11 more

She stayed at the function for all of one hour, then bolted.p.262.9alternate pages11 more

He liked being near enough to hear the approach of death in the rising panic of his vic tims.†p.256.9alternate pages10 more

Everyone was thinking in terms of towers, but Burnham, for one, did not think a tower was the best approach.p.135.4alternate pages10 more

The Black City to the north lay steeped in smoke and garbage, but here in the White City of the fair visitors found clean public bathrooms, pure water, an ambulance service, electric streetlights, and a sewage-processing system that yielded acres of manure for farmers.†p.247.2alternate pages5 more

I presume anyone running a race has moments of half despair, along toward the end; but they must never be yielded to.†p.222.4alternate pages5 more

Something novel, original, daring and unique must be designed and built if American engineers are to retain their prestige and standing.p.156.4alternate pages10 more

A middle-aged man in knife-edge whites took his message up three decks to the Marconi room adjacent to the officer's promenade.†p.4.6alternate pages10 more

Although Chicago was rapidly achieving recognition as an industrial and mercantile dynamo, its leading men felt keenly the slander from New York that their city had few cultural assets.p.29.7alternate pages6 more

The guardians of Minnie Williams had dispatched an attorney, William Capp, to look for Minnie and to protect the assets of her estate.p.324.1alternate pages6 more

It was this big talk, not the persistent southwesterly breeze, that had prompted New York editor Charles Anderson Dana to nickname Chicago "the Windy City."†p.14.1alternate pages9 more

The monstrous guns of Krupp were in place in their pavilion on the lake south of the Court of Honor.†p.221.1alternate pages12 more

Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, after the storm of June 13, 1892.†p.111.5alternate pages31 more

Bertillon believed that each man's measurements were unique and thus could be used to penetrate the aliases that criminals deployed in moving from city to city.†p.122.7alternate pages10 more

Her Harry was so handsome and dynamic, she knew that once married they would share a wonderful life full of travel and fine possessions.p.202.8alternate pages2 more

Parroted from thesis to thesis, this view first gained prominence through a curiously personal dynamic that made it difficult and—as is often the case in the cramped and stuffy rooms of academic debate—even dangerous to resist.p.375.3alternate pages2 more

To explain the print's permanence, detectives theorized that Holmes, known to have an avid interest in chemistry, had first poured a sheen of acid onto the floor to hasten by chemical reaction the consumption of oxygen in the vault.†p.191.5alternate pages5 more

He wrote opera critiques for the Chicago Tribune.†p.27.1alternate pages2 more

Some days the halls were suffused with a caustic scent, as of a cleanser applied too liberally, other days with a silvery medicinal odor, as if a dentist were at work somewhere in the building easing a customer into a deep sleep.p.256.4alternate pages3 more

The next day the newspaper singled out Chauncey Depew, president of the New York Central, for a particularly caustic appraisal.p.310.9alternate pages3 more