Word: dormer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...endowed Harvard with several scholarships, a pasture, and Stoughton Hall. In 1700, during Increase Mather's presidency, Stoughton "College" was built at right angles to the cast end of Harvard Hall. The second brick building in the Yard, it had three stories and an attic lighted by dormer windows...
...middle 80s), and shooting in the 90s. Then the President settled down in "the Eisenhower Cabin," as the Augusta National Golf Club officially calls the $75,000, seven-room house it built for Ike. The "cabin," styled with a white-columned front porch and a steep slate roof with dormer windows, perches on a ridge by a pine grove between the clubhouse and the row of smaller cabins used by other members. Among the interior decorations: a set of 18 photographs showing previous homes occupied by the Dwight Eisenhowers; a painting by Ike of grandson David, his face twisted...
...Earl of Chesterfield, who in 1935 succeeded to the title bestowed in 1628 by Charles I; of cardiac asthma; in London. The family name "Chesterfield" survives in the English language, associated with an overcoat, a sofa and an elegant manner. Best known of the Chesterfields: the fourth earl, Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), famed for his letters...
...city, broken only by the infrequent whimpering of a shattered milliner. Peace descends, the western sky assumes the soft reds and blues of a New England sunset, and the first calm note of the angelus rings out over the countryside. Lights are beginning to flicker and glow in dormer windows. Let us take our leave now, softly, quietly...
...Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, was a chilly 18th Century aristocrat, diplomat and wit, whose famous letters to his son, designed to make the lad a blue chip off the old block, immortalized their author instead. Reared in the Age of Reason, Chesterfield also became its perfect symbol: a man who saw his time steadily, but never saw through...