Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Architect Gilbert showed the nation what he thought the Court's new home should look like: a classic temple of white stone 385 ft. deep, on each side of which abut lower rectangular wings. The temple-front is roofed to a slight peak above massive Corinthian columns, this portal and the wings to present a façade 304 ft. wide...
Racegoers flocked to see a match between the two most touted horses of the season: William Woodward's Gallant Fox, rugged, big-chested, built on classic lines of speed and strength; Harry Payne Whitney's Whichone, tapering-bodied, slim, stylized. There were three other horses in the race, but people talked about them only in the possible ways in which their performances could influence the rivalry between these two: Gallant Fox, winner of the Preakness, the Wood Memorial, the Kentucky Derby; Whichone, who beat Gallant Fox in the Futurity last year...
...ornament, always eschewed by Wright, is almost universally regarded now as an artificial extravagance in a machine age. Steel skeletons and stone sheathing are, as Wright predicted, expressed rather than concealed. Architects are proud to design power stations which look like power stations, skyscrapers which do not resemble distorted Classic Temples. Last week the East joined the Midwest. West and Europe in acknowledging Frank Lloyd Wright as a pioneer in modernism. The Architectural League dined him formally in its Manhattan clubhouse. After dinner the company witnessed the opening of the first Wright exhibition in Manhattan. On the walls were quotations...
They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree and Somewhere in Old Wyoming (Brunswick)?The first (by Dick Robertson, a male quartet and a jews' harp) should become a barber-shop classic...
Advance information relative to the Harvard-Yale regatta at New London, yesterday revealed the official schedule for the classic meeting between the Eli and Crimson sweep-swingers. According to information from the H. A. A., the combination crews will race on June 19, the event starting., over a two mile course, at 4 o'clock. The main regatta will follow on June...