Word: clapboarded
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Practicality and a Puritan bias toward plainness have made the white clapboard church, not the soaring stone spire, the nation's quintessential symbol of worship. Yet some Americans prefer to honor God in grandeur. One was George Washington, who dreamed of "a great church for national purposes in the capital city." It was only a century later that members of his Episcopal Church began making plans to build a towering Gothic cathedral atop the highest point of land in the District of Columbia...
...learned that I don't have to be President to be happy," says Hubert Humphrey. It's an extraordinary irony to hear him say that after all those years of struggling to get the job. Sitting in his brown clapboard home on the icy edge of Minnesota's Lake Waverly, he adds: "I don't hunger for it like I used to. I've got my pride back, and I'm not going to lose it again...
THERE WAS A PARTY at 27 Francis Ave. last Tuesday night--several hundred fairly young and wealthy Cambridge residents were crammed into a small clapboard house making political chitchat and waiting for the Cambridge Convention '75 candidates to come in from their election headquarters...
...divisions over the issues in Cambridge are strikingly class oriented. Upper class professionals are interested in preserving what they have--clean streets, clapboard private houses with small lawns, and quiet, wooded neighborhoods. They are reacting against overcrowding in Cambridge, plans to erect high-rise buildings and mounting traffic and pollution...
...named John Surratt built a two-story clapboard house in the Maryland countryside about ten miles from Washington, D.C. Soon it served as a tavern, polling place, post of fice and home for the Surratt family, and the area became known as Surrattsville. After Surratt died in 1862, his widow Mary leased the building and moved to Washington, where she opened a boardinghouse. It was there, in 1865, that John Wilkes Booth plotted the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. One of Booth's associates, John Lloyd, turned state's evidence and implicated Mrs. Surratt in the conspiracy...