Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first operation performed under either at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846. Nearby are collections of all types of medical instruments, ranging from the very crude ones of early days up to the highly developed ones of today. The center of the room is taken over by an architect's model of the Medical School today and the proposed building for the Dental School...
...mother house of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (Cowley Fathers), oldest (1865) order of priests in the Anglican communion. Present last week to lay the cornerstone of a chapel dedicated to St. Mary, Mother of God, were Episcopal Suffragan Bishop Samuel Gavitt Babcock of Massachusetts, pious Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Glassman Charles Jay Connick, able Organist Everett Titcomb, and Rev. Spence Burton, U. S. superior of the black-cassocked Cowley Fathers...
...Mary chapel is to be a memorial to Father Burton's mother, Mrs. Caspar Burton of Cincinnati, who long ago gave the land for it. The main unit of the monastery, in Architect Cram's finest medieval style, will be in memory of Father Burton's brother Caspar, who died of War wounds. With this and a cloister under construction, the whole will eventually cost $500,000. But to Boston the most interesting donor to the Cowley Fathers monastery was their late patron ess, a terrifying little woman who gave the $25,000 St. Francis House...
...aggregation of prosperous utility properties controlled by Promoter Harley Lyman Clarke's Utilities Power & Light Corp. Promoter Clarke had picked them up in the 1920's while he was pyramiding his $400,000,000 holding company. In the field of financial pyramiding Promoter Clarke was an architect with considerable imagination. He it was who piled his General Theatres Equipment, Inc. on top of Fox Film early in Depression, a heroic achievement which cost Chase National Bank many a million, sent two members of the New York Stock Exchange to the wall, led to the complete collapse...
...many of their hopes to tragic frustrations. But they can admire without reservation his narrative style, bare but not bleak, naturalistic but not dull, and his cunning blend of the literary and the colloquial. Dos Passos believes that a writer's modest job is to be an "architect of history." He never talks about creation in connection with his work. His job, he feels, is simply to arrange the materials, confining any artistic high jinks to decoration that will enhance the outlines of the building without weakening its structure...