Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public abstinence and private indulgence. There is no doubt but what a widespread consumption of liquor is an economic and social problem, and is in fact well recognized as such, but if the country is not prepared for such a plunge as the Volstead Act represents, a more moderate approach is to be sought...
...pronounced Kor-tee-zus). A small, chunky, lively gentleman with iron-grey hair, moustache and goatee, he has conducted Scribner's art department for six years and the Herald Tribune's for 38. No art critic in the U. S. exhibits a more dignified, fastidious, yet spirited approach to his subject. None writes with more alertness and lucidity. Through all his years of professional journalism, Royal Cortissoz has preserved the gusto of an amateur...
...they didn't, for at the beginning of the third round Smith was five strokes up on his roommate. That morning Jones broke the course record with a 65. He drove the 270-yard second green and got down in two putts for a birdie. He laid an approach dead for another birdie on the fifth. On the second nine he made every hole in four except two that he made in two. In the afternoon he made one mistake-he took a six on the seventeenth. Smith, who was playing up behind him, heard about...
Tourists should be grateful for this approach to Biltmore. In 1890, with Chicago's World Fair (Columbian Exposition ) still three years off, and popular interest in art largely limited to pyrography, china painting and the confection of Turkish cosy corners, George Washington Vanderbilt, sensitive, shy, 22-year-old grandson of Commodore Cornelius, commissioned the bearded Beaux-Artist Richard Morris Hunt to build for him the finest private house in America. Architect Hunt, who had already sprinkled Newport and Fifth...
...Vanderbilts assembled to walk through the magnificent gardens laid out by Frederick Law Olmstead, designer of New York's Central Park, to attend the official housewarming of Biltmore House. An assembled chateau, it is designed chiefly after the Chateau de Blois. There was nothing in North America to approach it; no other Vanderbilt had so fine a home...