Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least two outspoken architects thought not. Complained Philadelphia's J. Roy Carroll Jr.: "The designs for the most part are pale copies of those executed after the first World War, with the usual classic pavilion, symmetrical stairways and Grecian urns." Architect George Daub agreed: "It should have been competitive...
...little boy has grown into Gary Cooper with a mustache. He is a rising architect with the scars of an old would on his heart. He goes to Paris, where he sees his old house. He returns to England and goes to Yorkshire to rebuild some stables for the Duke of Tower. The Duke's wife--guess who she turns out to be--falls in love with him, and vice-versa. The duke walks in on them in her bedroom, pulls a gun, and gets killed as Cooper brains him with a chair, Cooper gets life in a prison...
Reaching into the public till and job making came to a head in 1941 when the then District Attorney, Richard F. Bradford, charged the incumbent mayor of Cambridge, John W. Lyons, with accepting a one-third rebate on architect's fees for a city building project...
...last May Noel Field, ostensibly bound for Prague, left his wife in Switzerland and disappeared. After two months Herta Field went to Prague to search for him. She found no trace. She sent a plea to his brother to come and help. Brother Hermann Field, a sometime architect, professor, refugee worker and tourist guide, flew posthaste to Prague and from there to Warsaw in search of Noel...
...cumbersome for its principal to run. Its rooms should be cheery and colorful as any parlor, as sunny as any porch. All this can be accomplished, says the FORUM, if school boards follow the rules of common sense. Rule No. 1: hire a good architect...