Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left a substantial estate by her father, Levin Parsons, and who spends her time with one eye on her knitting, the other on stock market reports. Owning a row of brick tenements, farm lands, and a batch of securities. Miss Parsons insists on living in one half of a frame duplex house without electricity or bathtub, wears cotton hose and gingham dresses, likes to haggle with grocers over not quite fresh foods. As kindly as she is money-conscious, she has been known to spend several hundred dollars for kneeling stools for her church or to send a tenant...
...Theodore Strauss One of the scarcest forms of U. S. literature, the novelette until recently has been catalogued by U. S. publishers as a fiction, freak. To support this view, publishers could name on the fingers of one hand such lonely little albinos as Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame, Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins. But since the appearance of such big white-headed boys as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind, short novels have also climbed aboard best-seller lists (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Goodbye, Mr. Chips...
...Weirton, W. Va., population 16,000, lies in a fold of the hills about 40 mi. west of Pittsburgh. Its arterial main street bisects the dingy rambling mills of Weirton Steel Co. On narrower streets that wind up the steep hills, Weirton's workers live in frame houses, built against the hillside. Two miles outside Weirton, in dramatic proximity to the inevitable squalor of U. S. industrial life, stands "The Lodge," the comfortable, greystone mansion of Weirton's founder, Ernest Tener Weir, its most conspicuous feature a swimming pool in the lawn. Seven miles away from Weirton stands...
With a sense of humor befitting his heavy frame, Herbert Fleishhacker is today one of those unusual personalities who cause some travelers to describe San Francisco as the most cosmopolitan city in the U. S. His close cronies find amusement at his joy in a wager at golf, bridge, backgammon, dominoes, his even deeper desire to win at all of them. They have long since become accustomed to his practical jokes, are not surprised when he hands out explosive cigars, shaves during business conferences, becomes irrepressibly boisterous. And shrewd Mr. Fleishhacker now finds his name firmly imbedded in local projects...
...order to make room for the new gymnasium, Gannett House, a frame building dating from about 1830 and now used by the Harvard Law School, will be moved within the next month a short distance from its present location at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Holmes Place. It will stand on what is now the western branch of Holmes Place and will face to the east...