Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt came there, the White House's most energetic mistress had been Dolly Madison. She furnished the executive mansion with fine gilt chairs built in France, had the good sense to hide the Lansdowne portrait of Washington and fly to Virginia when the British invaded Washington. But when the British left, Dolly Madison came back home. As every reader of newspapers is by now aware. Franklin Roosevelt's Eleanor uses No. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. less as a home than as a base of operations. Mrs. Madison was limited to horses as her means of locomotion...
...softly falling. Red Army divisions, snug in their ankle-length winter overcoats and turnip helmets, filled the vast Red Square. All Moscow turned out to see who would bear the ashes of Comrade Katayama to their niche in the Kremlin wall. Millions of eyes fastened on a swart, powerfully built man in a long greatcoat who strode bareheaded through the snowstorm: Chief Pallbearer Josef Stalin...
...privilege considerably improved, if provision were made for the reception of books between midnight and nine o'clock. A delivery box secure at once against thievery and Cambridge rains, and equipped inside with a canvas slide so that the books would not be injured by the drop, could be built at a very reasonable cost. Surely this would provide a cheap and efficient means for the Library Council to increase the convenience of the Reading Room...
Army did not bother to use any first string men for more than one period against Coe, hence the crowd saw nothing of Jack Buckler. Of the incredible team which Coach Gar Davison has built from football wreckage in his first season, Halfback Buckler is the most dangerous player because of his ability to pass unerringly while running at top speed. Fortnight ago Yale rarely could guess what Buckler was up to, could do little about it when they guessed right...
...when he decorated his Sunday School room with texts redrawn from specimen letters in an old type book and cut out of fancy wallpaper. As bookkeeper, clerk, unsuccessful publisher, ad vertising artist, he never lost interest in letters. From Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers, other famed printers and designers have built great reputations on the strength of two or three original alphabets. In the centre of the Goudy exhibition last week a streamer list hung from a column. It started with Camelot, 1896, ended with Goudy Boldface, 1932. Above was a short announcement: "This chronological list of 87 types drawn since...