Word: bungalowed
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...hushed rooms of the small bungalow were cluttered with dolls, doll furniture, toys. It was early morning and the only ones up were Barton Davis and two of his children, whom he warned to be quiet: the other two children and their mother were still asleep. He helped three-year-old Marquis get dressed, told ten-year-old Daphne to take care of him, kissed the two goodby, and left them making toast...
...knocked off her rent for taking charge of a bungalow court. Joe Yule Jr. got some small parts, sometimes made as much as $50 a week. But this was small change compared with the dreams Joe Yule Jr. was beginning to dream in the heady Hollywood...
...owned and run by Anthony ("Tony") Cornero Stralla, 47, California's paramount rumrunner in Prohibition days.* Short and stocky, square shooting by his own code, Tony is well-known around Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, where he lives in a modest bungalow. He loves high-stake gambling himself, against big shots like Nick the Greek or syndicates of movie tycoons who set out to "take...
...houses actually built for $1,000-$2,000 families, with an accompanying study of cost factors, shows that such houses must not cost much more than $3,300. Under present conditions this usually means either 1) a two-story box with six rooms or a one-story bungalow with five; 2) a lot not over 40 ft. wide; 3) quantity building on more or less identical plan. The challenge to architects: to face this fundamental problem in design, which now in many cases goes by default to builders without benefit of architect, with frequently characterless results...
Simultaneously with closing of the Steinbeck deal came Viking's rosy announcement that advance orders for Steinbeck's new volume of short stories, The Long Valley, to be published September 19, had already reached the 8,000 mark. Hard at work on a new novel at his bungalow in Los Gatos, Calif., Novelist Steinbeck meanwhile awaited a check for $6,000 covering back royalties. This will bring his total earnings (Of Mice and Men accounting for the bulk of them) to around $50,000. In another 17 years, when he is 53, he figures he will have saved...