Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Fortnum & Mason did what few great London shops have done: opened a store in Manhattan. The building is seven stories of pink brick with a blue-green base. Its façade and ground floor are a copy of the London shop. Walls and counters are of pale waxed pine, lined with long rows of bottles and preserved goods from all over the world, many painted in pastel shades. Smooth salesmen in morning coats and striped trousers greet the visitors. Much has been done to preserve the British tradition. On exhibit at last week's opening...
...second year in succession the solid gold shield of the Holland Bulb Exporters Association went to Marshall Field for a bulb garden arranged by his able superintendent, George H. Gillies. Flaming tulips lined a green turf path to a stone bench by a mellow brick wall shaded by flowering lilac, rhododendrons, laurel, dogwood...
...first John Gott- lieb Wendel, contemporary of John Jacob Astor, made a fortune in furs, the family had followed his precept: Buy, but never sell, property. Heiress of at least $100,000,000 in real estate, Ella Wendel lived all her life a recluse in the ugly old red-brick house (last appraised at $6,000) on the corner (last appraised at $3,684,000). Friends said her seclusion was voluntary, her life happy. She and her sisters Augusta, Josephine, Mary, Georgiana were dominated, kept from marrying by Brother John Gottlieb Wendel III. Rebecca, a sixth sister, eluded his tyranny...
...chapel has been prompted by many reasons. Probably the greatest unity of opinion is to be found in the fear that a $1,000,000 chapel in the Yard will prove to be an architectural blunder. It is no secret that old Harvard men look aghast as new brick buildings are plumped down in rapid succession in the Yard's few remaining open spaces. There can be no doubt that a very large group of men, alumni and undergraduates, are united in asking that if the new chapel is erected in the Yard, it be of moderate proportions. No pretentious...
...into condition now, by swimming occasionally in the pool. The test to be taken at the end of the three weeks includes holding a ten-pound weight above the surface for several minutes by treading water, swimming a quarter of a mile free style, and retrieving a brick in ten feet of water without diving...