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

"Hey!" cried the lady of the caravan, "Yes, to be sure--Who won the Helter-Skelter Plate?"

From Ten Girls from Dickens by Sweetser, Kate Dickinson

"The Helter-Skelter Plate at the races, child—the plate that was run for on the second day."

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

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.