Word: boxwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designed for Manhattan an apartment house of concrete, steel and glass more radical and inventive than any even proposed in functionalist Europe. This and a grander design for a desert resort in Arizona were kept off the ground by Depression. Wright's desert camp of canvas and boxwood, built by his apprentices in 1929, stands as one of his most brilliant pieces of geometrical design. Still ignored by conventional architects, never invited to take part in the Chicago World's Fair, whose blatant "modernism" was an unconscious tribute to his pioneer work, Wright .nevertheless found clients who allowed...
...Named after the pyx used for the same purpose in the British mint. Pyxis, the Greek and Latin word for a box, derives from pyxos, the boxwood tree...
...home, next door to Jefferson's beloved Monticello at Charlottesville. Va. Every one should see this statue; it's an inspiration and more beautifully placed than any of the Piccirilli works you mention. It's at home -in the midst of Monroe's own beautiful boxwood garden...
...that is not all. The pines of Summerville, crape jasmine and myrtle, wisteria and roses, boxwood, live oaks and Spanish moss, palmetto, banana, poinsettias and oleander-only parts of Florida, not California, can compare. Even the low black swamps have a rare appeal. Cypress with spreading trunks and entangling roots...
...next autumn he will open a school for boys. He has acquired "Oakington," the 550-acre estate of the late Commodore Leonard Richards on Chesapeake Bay near Aberdeen, Md. Designed by Stanford White, it contains 25 rooms and a ballroom. Adjacent are a model farm, a garden with venerable boxwood, enough tenant houses for 100 boys and faculty members. The school will be "progressive," carry learning-by-doing to its extreme. Grey-haired at 49, Major Garey talks of his plans, sometimes dreamily with closed eyes, sometimes in dynamic barks. Says...