Word: driveways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garage, now being built in the Yard between Emerson Hall and the President's House, marks what may be the first structure in a new building program under President Conant. It faces Quincy Street along the gravel driveway, and is constructed of red brick, inn harmony with the other buildings in the Yard. The two swinging doors will be set in colonial arches of white wood, and besides the four big square windows and the door, there will be two round windows in each gable-end, at the front and back of the garage. This will heighten the Georgian effect...
...horse-folk which fully equals his wife's, despite Chadd's Ford's performance last week. In his long career as a poloist, amateur jockey and foxhunter, he has had time to break almost every bone in his round, slim-legged, huge-shouldered frame. In the driveway of the Clark's place at Westbury-where the Meadow Brook Steeplechase is run every September- automobiles are seldom seen. They are generally forbidden because Ambrose Clark, though he likes to drive fast in a car and owns a Rolls-Royce with a bed in it so that...
...string of smart motors swished up the driveway to Mrs. Edward Small Moore's shingled, rambling country home in Roslyn, L. I. one sunny morning last week. Out of the shining automobiles stepped 70 ladies clad brightly, tastefully, expensively. Reckoned by money and prestige, they were the cream of the nation's womanhood, gathered from Maine to Oregon. Inside the Moore house they sat on Early American chairs and ate a chatty meal. Then the ladies repaired to a long drawing room full of roses and tulips. At this point the gathering lost all resemblance to a conventional...
...Institute's $500 scholarships last year for study at Fontainebleau. He figured music buildings brought him luck. He figured further that the main problem of an opera house was to get the people in and out quickly. Concentrating on the cloak rooms and taxi driveway, he drank gallons of black coffee, slept on the floor of his cubicle, drew and erased with furious care. There is no telephone in the Bronx home where Finalist Granelli lives with his father, an Italian mosaicist. But last week he got a telegram. He thought the judges, including Architects Ely Jacques Kahn...
...with pomp & splendor imitative of the ancient rituals of Westminster. Unlike George V, who uses a coach & eight, the Governor General rode to the Houses of Parliament in an automobile. As the clock in Ottawa's Peace Tower struck three, Princess Louise Dragoons escorted him into the Parliamentary Driveway, stiff lines of foot soldiers snapped to salute, a band played "God Save the King." Out stepped Lord Bessborough, Lady Bessborough on his arm. As he entered the hall, he was royally saluted with 19 guns...