Citations:Lion City


 * 1966 — Kenneth MacLeish, "Singapore, the Reluctant Nation", National Geographic, August 1966:
 * Goods from nearly every country on earth fill the small stores to bursting, emphasizing the Lion City's special character as a free port.
 * 1973 — Arun Senkuttuvan, "Tourism drive", Far Eastern Economic Review, Volume 79, Number 3, 22 January 1973:
 * The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) recently drew up a five-year development plan aimed at promoting the Lion City as the entrepot centre for tourism in the region.
 * 1976 — Jan Morris, Travels, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1976), ISBN 9780151910755, page 42:
 * And on from thence, I misquoted to myself as I boarded the aircraft in Hong Kong, and on from thence to Singapore: and though the Lion City is hardly a garden of the sun, at least it is distinctly golden, and possesses a mingled allure of the rapacious, the aggressive, the repellent and the extraordinary that any true pilgrim would relish.
 * 1977 — David Muller, Whitey: A Novel, Ravan Press (1977), ISBN 9780869750629, page 33:
 * It had become a very battered suitcase, he recalled, for it was some years ago that he had last visited the Lion City.
 * 1980 — Donald Gould, "Delusions of grandeur", New Scientist, 3 January 1980:
 * For a time, and until the harsh economic realities of life in the Lion City had sunk in, I even employed a syce (a functionary known in the West as a chauffeur/odd-job man), and I was driven around as if I was Mr Tiger Balm himself.
 * 1999 — Bruce Bishop, "The Heart of Singapore", The Rotarian, February 1999:
 * The Lion City boasts the tallest hotel in the world (the Westin Stamford), the busiest port, the highest man-made waterfall, and (just as a point of interest) the highest percentage of movie-goers.
 * 2005 — David Heenan, Flight Capital: The Alarming Exodus of America's Best and Brightest, Davies-Black Publishing (2005), ISBN 0891062025, page 139:
 * But he keeps coming back to the Lion City, where he has spent fifteen years, off and on.
 * 2008 — Helen Oon, Singapore, New Holland (2008), ISBN 9781847730978, page 5:
 * Singapore is a place to be included on any traveller's itinerary, whether for pleasure or business. Its manifold attractions lure over six million visitors to the Lion City every year.