Word: gingerbread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Homemade Gingerbread. What Candidate McGonigle lacks in political experience he makes up in genial man-to-man manner. Born of Scotch-Irish Methodist parents in Kane, Pa., McGonigle worked his way through Kane High and Temple University, was a General Foods driver-salesman until he took charge at $30 a week of the shaky Bachman Pretzel Bakery in Reading, and began rocketing its output with automatic pretzel benders and cellophane packages. Last year G.O.P. State Chairman George Bloom, trying to salvage something of the G.O.P. wreckage left by the Grundy and Fine machines, persuaded Pretzel King McGonigle to become...
...style seemed more surely dead and buried than Art Nouveau, the turn-of-the-century vogue for flowing, whirling motifs and gingerbread gewgaws. Thrown out by cubist artists who viewed such effulgent detail as a bad case of artistic warts, and banned by the stripped-down school of Bauhaus modern architects, the movement that once spread across Europe and to the U.S. had been dormant for decades. Now there is new interest in Art Nouveau-particularly among the strongest proponents of modern art and architecture...
...tale trimmings. But it is the first in which the bad fairy-far from cutting up or winning out-is not even allotted a role. Though the ironist in Anouilh may jab the romantic in places, the cynic nowhere throttles him. On the contrary, Anouilh piles gilt on the gingerbread, and gives Cinderella her Prince Charming without any rushing from ballrooms or bother of trying on shoes. Indeed, if there is anything of a crooked smile to Anouilh's pretty nothing, it is in his playing it so almost completely straight...
...finest local specimens of Charles Addams Victorian is the antique white building which houses the Harvard Furniture Company. Customers entering the Massachusetts Avenue store are confronted with an array of gingerbread cabinets and a pair of owl andirons with amber eyes. Like the exterior, the inside of the shop seems a memorial to the taste of the last century...
...forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age, there will be time for meekness when you try to better it." With that challenging epigraph borrowed from James M. (Peter Pan) Barrie, a Philadelphia artist named John Maass has written a book (The Gingerbread Age; Rinehart; $7.95) defending-of all things -American Victorian architecture. "This was no mean age," says Author Maass. "In every field of human endeavor, the mid-19th century was a time of frenetic activity and massive achievement. Is it true that the generation which constructed the transatlantic cable and the transcontinental railroad was unable to build...