Word: gingerbread
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With the residue of still older favorites-from Spanish (and stucco-Spanish) to the gingerbread and rocking-chair porches of Victonanism and an occasional Mediterranean villa-the region showed most of the trials, errors and nostalgias in U S architectural history...
...Sweden, King Gustaf took a chance in a lottery at a Red Coss bazaar, won two bunches of carrots, a flashy garter and some gingerbread, but missed out on a three-foot spettekaka (Swedish egg and spun-sugar delicacy) which he had set his heart...
...should be run. Cracked Showman Rose: "When Mr. Johnson mentions me as a possible director of the gingerbread monstrosity on 39th Street, I wonder whether he's agreeing with me or just getting even...
...Gingerbread Jewel Box. "I cannot tell, I cannot decide," a Western official in Cologne told me, "whether this Germany has two faces-or no face...
...Schatzküstlein (little jewel box), one looks down at night from the great 11th Century castle on the sparkling lights below which seem to stud a living, healthy city. But in the light of day, the city is a ruin, rendered only more monstrous by the neat little gingerbread houses which poke impertinently above the debris...