Word: dormer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carpenters and painters have been sawing, hammering, and laying on. Raisers and lowerers of the Maintenance Department have been passing things through dormer windows...
With such material as her basis, Dormer Creston has constructed a biography of Maric Bashkirtseff which is a mingling of tears and laughter, joy and deep tragedy. Such was the life of this youthful and ambitious artist. From her earliest days, which Miss Creston describes in a light and whimsical yein, to her later life, Maric Bashkirtseff demanded of the world, and life itself, all that it had to offer...
...monkey, escaping Tuesday, six times climbed up to the top of the Medical School powerhouse and when its lashing tall was almost secured by a waiting posse on the cornice, it turned and jumped to a dormer six and a half stories below...
...oldest college building still standing is Harvard's Massachusetts Hall of 1720. Seen on both old prints, it is midway in style between Old Harvard with its medieval emphasis on pointed dormer windows and its strikingly irregular roof line, and the more measured formality of New Harvard Massachusetts and reminiscent of Boston's Old State House of the Early Georgian period...
Comparatively obscure Pacifist-Lecturer Sir Norman Angell, recipient of the 1933 Peace Prize last week, announced that he was "too busy"to come to Oslo for his $44,338, had it accepted for him by the British Minister to the Kingdom of Nor way, trusty Cecil F. J. Dormer. Nobel prizes other than Peace are awarded in Stockholm. Last week on the same day that Norway's Crown Prince Olaf watched Premier Mowinckel award Mr. Henderson in Oslo, King Gustaf V of Sweden awarded the other Nobel winners: Literature, scrubby-bearded Italian Dramatist Luigi Pirandello (TIME, Nov. 19); Medicine...