metal-ribbed

Updated: June 11, 2025

Nobody, at any rate in the comfortable clubs, seems even to consider that the original cause of the warfare is aught but a homicidal cussedness on the part of the unions.... I say that these accidents and these guerrillas mysteriously and grimly proceeding in the skyey fabric of metal-ribbed constructions, do really form part of the poetry of life in America or should it be the poetry of death?

Arnold Bennett - Your United States: Impressions of a first visit