Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painfully mannered and prolix dissection of an Englishman with a talent for sponging, should cause him no such embarrassment whatever. Stephen Wain developed the habit of living off his half-brother Maxwell, a wealthy explorer, when they shared diggings in Bayswater, where Stephen studied architecture. Later, as a practicing architect, he was too obliging to examine closely the shoddy materials his friends the contractors supplied him. Consequently he got a bad reputation, lapsed into weak self-pity. When his brother decided to reside in England permanently, Stephen managed to join him again, began to let his business slide. Maxwell bought...
Travers was an architect. He built vulgar edifices for the masses, which made him money and a reputation but somehow did not satisfy him. Travers was also a bit fuzzy. Returning from a trip to the U. S. he is met by his pretty young wife at Liverpool. Travers wanders off to buy a book, becomes innocently involved in a street brawl, is taken in tow by a mysterious florist in the pay of the internationally omnipotent Lord Snarge...
While Mrs. Travers and her husband's traveling companion, Mantell, comb the city for the wandering architect, Travers learns that Lord Snarge is going to build a radio station on a Greek island. He is going to destroy the ruins of an ancient Temple to Apollo in so doing. Offended to the core, romantic Travers and a sailor named Bert, whom he picks up in a dockside restaurant, set out to thwart Snarge...
Died. Joseph Maria Urban, 61, famed Vienna-born architect and stage designer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Deeply chagrined were many liberals, including Art Collector Albert Bender. Last week Mr. Bender's name was on the list but so were names of such conservative stripe as: Banker James K. Moffitt, Paint Man Parmer Fuller. Director Wetmore Hodges of General Foods Corp. Others: Lawyer Albert Rosenshine, Architect Irving F. Morrow (Golden Gate Bridge), Banker-Author Jesse Lilienthal (Gambler's Wife), Socialite Robert Hooker. Dr. Thomas Addis, Ophthalmologist Hans Barkan, President Daniel Koshland of Juvenile Court and Poet Marie Welch, daughter of Shipping & Sugar Man Andrew Welch...