Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dyer, a law clerk, an architect, a theatrical manager and eight other average citizens, sitting as a Federal jury in Manhattan last week, found Jack ("Legs") Diamond, New York's pasty-face, shot-riddled gangster guilty of conspiracy to violate the Prohibition law, and of operating a still. For four days they had listened to witnesses detail Diamond's beer-running activities in the Catskills. The verdict was Diamond's first major conviction in a career of 25 arrests for everything from petty larcency to murder...
...inspired the (Charles Dana) Gibson Girl* and Maurice Bennett ("Lefty"') Flynn, Yaleman, onetime All-American football star, thrice before married and divorced (Irene Claire, Blanche Shrove Palmer, Cinemactress Viola Dana); in London. Mrs. Flynn knew her husband in Oregon many years ago, was not divorced from British Architect Paul Phipps until last month in London. A zealous photographer who sought to photograph bride & groom was knocked out by husky Mr. Flynn...
...Architect Richard Morris Hunt; in Manhattan. From a small sketch left by his father he completed the new wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some of his work: Quintard and Hoffman Halls at the University of the South; "Idle Hour," country home of the late William Kissam Vanderbilt; "Castle Gould" on the estate of Howard Gould...
Designed by the late Architect Louis Bourgeois, who died in his studio on its grounds, the Temple of Light has been called by Architect Harold Van Buren Magonigle "the first new idea in architecture since the 13th century." Nine-sided, looking somewhat like a 161-ft. beehive, it is composed of two superimposed stories and a great Oriental dome. As yet incomplete, its concrete sides will be covered with fancy stonework, the dome filled in with translucent glass. Three-quarters of a million dollars, half of its eventual cost, have been expended upon it, but now Baha...
Across the street from the Temple of Light is the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club, a convivial organization which occupies the basement of Architect Benjamin Howard Marshall's gay pink house. So quietly, bothering no one, does Baha'i meet, that last week's celebration of the Bab's martyrdom (with readings and prayers led by Mrs. Corrine True of Wilmette) went quite unnoticed by the yachtsmen...