Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very few people will be surprise at the announcement of the purchase by the University of the Boston Elevated Company's power plant at Boylston street and Memorial Drive. The building has so long been though of as Harvard's property, or at least as obtainable almost at will, that speculation has run rather on what might happen when it was gone. Now that its disappearance before Harvard's expansion southward has become a matter only of time, there arise two questions of prime importance: What to do with the riverfront which is now open for development, and where...
Another definite step towards the ultimate consummation of the House Plan comes with the completion of the sale of the Boston Elevated Company's power plant at the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston Street. Both interested parties have signed the necessary documents, according to a statement from University Hall, and the property will be transferred to the University...
Expectant scribes could only remain certain that when Andre Tardieu does choose to speak, he will step briskly up the stair leading to the Chamber's Tribune, open his remarks with accustomed arrogance, and drive straight on to his conclusions with merciless, go-getting logic, always presenting his thesis as simply ban sens (common sense), and implying that his opponents must be visionary scatter-brains...
...fond of plover eggs. He drank champagne from the slipper of Actress Pauline Markham, who had a "voice of velvet and the lost arms of Venus of Milo." He tried to drive a coach-and-four through the doorway of a Paris house, putting himself in the hospital for a month. Several times, in dead of night, he raced along the boulevards?stark naked in the driver...
...architecture at No. 19 Beaver Street. Beaver Street? The name is unknown to Cantabrigians; even the taxicab drivers in Harvard Square, with the exception of course of the sapient Nappy, are unacquainted with it. Hence we must state that it is a picturesque thoroughfare which leads off Memorial Drive a block beyond the John W. Weeks Memorial bridge. It is a very pleasant location for an embryonic organism, within view of capsizing single scullers on the Charles River, and amidst other renovated homes, painted like Old Gold cigarette packages, chrome, white and red. The Psychological Clinic, as it is called...