helter-skelter

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It replaces the Pinnacle, otherwise known as the Helter-Skelter, a contorted, would-be iconic design on which construction was abandoned after work started on its foundations and concrete core.

From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2015

I always suspected that underneath Boyle's pastoral vision and Anish Kapoor's sketchy Helter-Skelter there would be 10,000 volunteers ready to burst this bubble.

From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2012

To which is added, Two Poems, Helter-Skelter, on the Hue and Cry after the Country Attornies, on their Riding the Circuit; and, The Place of the Damn’d.

From The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 by Novak, Maximillian E.

Poff! is this Mrs. Helter-Skelter a discreet sort of woman?

From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

"Yes, to be sure———Who won the Helter-Skelter Plate, child?"

From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Dickens, Charles