Word: fa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...previous World Fairs have had vast classic façades which wearied the eye; interminable promenades which wearied the feet; monotonous planning, usually in squares, which wearied the mind. The Chicago planners are determined to permit none of these fatiguing conventions. Architecture will be imaginative rather than historical. Transportation will be ubiquitous (monorails, moving sidewalks, boats). Planning will be organic, molding the entire Fair into an architectural unit...
...goldilock delicacy of Vivian Martin, oldtime cinema ingenue, fails to redeem the bromides which she has to deliver in her cracked little voice. All three acts are set in a modernistic cottage, so turbulently red and orange that it resembles the façade of a Coney Island rollercoaster. This play had a run of 18 weeks in Chicago as Companionate Marriage...
...river darkened and thundered towards the mill race, light came full on the high façade of decay. Incredible in its loneliness, roofless, floorless, beams criss-crossing the dank interior daylight, the whole place tottered, fit to crash at a breath. Hinges rustily bled where a door had been wrenched away...
...busy with stepladders as with lexicons. For more than 18 years the work has been under way. The subjects range from earliest Slavic history to allegorical, exuberant prophecy. Sages, religious leaders, rulers appear in glorious pageantry. The most magnificent picture of the series, a canvas as large as the façade of a sizeable barn, depicts the liberation of Russian serfs by Tsar Alexander II in 1861. In a grey, snowy twilight a crowd of the poor are gathered in Moscow's Red Square. Looming through the soft fall of flakes is the ornate Cathedral of St. Basil...
...beat Smith. It was an honest effort by Writer Ruhl to report on Nominee Smith as he saw him. Excerpts: "There is something intensely real about 'Al' Smith . . . something alive, dynamic, go-ahead-reality in a spiritual sense. . . . "The late President Harding, let us say, presented a façade which was suave and winning. . . . But once touched or pierced it too often turned out to be but a façade and little more. . " 'Al' Smith's façade, the grin, cocked derby and half-chewed cigar . . . has little to do with...