Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the church's oddities: a font made of a broomstick and a bread bowl; a stained-glass window of dust from precious stones; a window offered to another church by Lotta Crabtree, and refused because she was an actress...
...title of the sombrest painter now alive, which is a considerable distinction, belongs by general consent to Georges Rouault. Born shortly after a shell knocked his mother out of bed during the Paris insurrection of 1871, Rouault was first apprenticed to a maker of stained glass, later became the favorite pupil of the academic painter, Gustave Moreau. Since Moreau's death in 1897, pale, clerkish Georges Rouault has lived a mystic, melancholy life. Every day he goes to the little Moreau museum, of which he is curator, near the Gare St. Lazare, often lunches violently with his old friend...
...which reduced the merit of Royal Barry Wills's design to that of a safe investment. For the Smiths of Wyncote, Pa. (income $10,000 to $12,000), Aymar Embury's spacious Colonial house appeared as dignified as all get-out, Harrison & Fouilhoux's severely glass-walled house as daring as the devil...
...designs are illustrated by many fine pictures with plans that he has drawn attached. Showing well the wide scope of his imagination is the "Garden City of the Future." The buildings are arranged so that a maximum amount of light enters every part and with wide expanses of glass and white glistening exteriors the impression given is that of light, airy construction. Wide boule-yards run symmetrically throughout the city and on every side are beautifully landscaped gardens and parks...
Senator Carter Glass: "God bless you, Walter.- Likewise the sovereign state of Georgia...