Word: beaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Holabird & Root are both sons of able architects. John Augur Holabird's father, William Holabird, established the firm of Holabird & Roche early in the century. Son John, 43, was born in Evanston, went to the Hill School, to West Point, to the Beaux-Arts. In 1919 he joined his father's firm, helped design the Chicago Temple Building, Grant Park Stadium (Soldier Field, famed scene of Tunney's second victory over Dempsey), Palmer House, Stevens Hotel, all of Chicago...
John Wellborn Root, 42, succeeded to the name and profession of his father who was chief architect of the Chicago World's Fair until his death in 1891. After Cornell and the Beaux-Arts, John Jr. won third prize in the competition for the Chicago Tribune Building. The firm was reorganized as Holabird & Root...
...long line. They have an intimate acquaintance with a cigarette, have heard of a pocket flask, and choose their courses according to the unmarried status of the professors. They show a fighting Irish spirit in maintaining two or three or four strings to every bow. (He means four beaux to every string). They are not bad company...
...Annual Ball of the Society of Beaux Arts Architects, Hotel Astor, Manhattan...