Word: chatelain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though customarily the fountainhead of the sound and the fury, old (88) Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright found himself on the receiving end of a scorcher from Leon Chatelain, president of the American Institute of Architects. Just returned from a globe-girdling trip, Architect Chatelain candidly assessed Tokyo's famed earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel, designed by Wright, and finished in 1922. The verdict: "One of the most horrible buildings I've ever been in. It is dark and dismal and looks grotesque...
...omission: she had felt she must leave the courtroom when the autopsy testimony got too grisly. Reporter Robb was also the source of some innocent merriment in Manchester; townspeople tittered at the big-city blue tint of her grey hair. But Manchesterites were not amused when Correspondent Nicolas Chatelain of Paris' Le Figaro patronizingly observed that Manchester's French Canadians speak a quaint "17th Century" French. One of the local pastors denounced Chatelain as just "a former dishwasher," and a French-Canadian society lodged a formal protest with the French consul in Boston...