Word: clapboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...influence of the visiting Gish girl over her home, her husband, her tough, irritable children. When the girl is forced to marry a cattle-rustler to get away from her cousin's house, a drama, familiar in its conflicts but brooding, powerful, works up in the clapboard house battered by sand and by the wind which, according to Indian legend, is a ghost horse gone crazy in the sky. Not a work of genius but far better than the average movie story, this picture gives Miss Gish the best and in fact the only opportunity she has had since...
Suddenly absent from its accustomed vantage point on the clapboard of a 38 Winthrop Street house, the bronze plaque proclaiming the place as the former dormitory of President Theodore Roosevelt '80 was again located yesterday after a search among various University departments...
...John Kane, housepainter of Pittsburgh, was known to some of the townspeople whose houses he had painted; critics had never heard his name. Some of the townspeople who remembered his long, bony face, his big, brown, scaly hands, remembered also hearing that when John Kane had finished with swabbing clapboard or pillar, he would go home and paint pictures in his bedroom. The critics, who saw his "Scene from the Scottish Highlands" hung with 119 other U. S. paintings, could believe that its creator had never attended art school. They wondered whether it was an eye for a picture...
Massachusetts has become the attic of the University,--a place for tattered and unsightly odds and ends. Cluttered together in a maze of clapboard partitions and sagging stairways are the offices of the chief janitor, the headquarters of the college police, the carpenter shop of the 47 Workshop, and, in the left, the shabby offices of a few tutors in the department of Economics. Commendable institutions, unquestionably,--and yet they seem a trifle unworthy of the oldest and most beautiful building in the University...
...building, which is expected to be ready for occupancy in February, will be of clapboard, 76 by 31 feet in size, and two stories in height, with a high basement. It will be equipped with automatic sprinklers...