Word: green
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were all good Girl Scouts-and as tired as I am-" said the white-haired lady in the grey-green uniform, ''you would all sit on the floor...
...Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard University. Professor Redlich has already served a term as Austrian Minister of Finance in the short-lived Lammasch Cabinet of ex-Emperor Karl. Last week reporters found him on the steps of Harvard's Widener Memorial Library, a green baize book bag under...
...existence of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Erotic and impulsive, he deserted his wife and six children to live with a Mrs. Mamah Bostwick Cheney and her two children, family of a Chicago businessman. For himself and them he built a splendidly original home on a rocky hill at Spring Green, southern Wisconsin. A thin-lipped Barbados Negro, their butler, one day chopped Mistress Cheney, her children and four neighbors to death with an axe and burned down the house. When Architect Wright rebuilt it, Miriam Noel, English sculptress who had fallen in love with his picture, joined him first...
...basic philosophies of his buildings are: 1) They, especially homes, should be constructed as integral parts of their landscapes and of the materials of the neighborhood. His thrice-built home at Spring Green seemed a rocky outcropping of the hill itself. 2) Buildings (factories, theatres, hotels) should interpret the spirit as well as suit the use of their occupancies. This has created blocky, mechanistic, "modernistic" structures. His most representative factory building is that of the Larkin Co. at Buffalo; his best hotel the Imperial at Tokyo, famed for octagonal copper bathtubs and "skyscraper" furniture. People for whom he builds homes...
...been practicing on the Charles River for the past two days will soon be augmented by a number of boats manned by Freshmen having their first crew experience this fall. The Leviathan has been taking several trips each afternoon under the direction of Coach H. H. Haines and the green oarsmen will be shipped in shells as soon as they have mastered the fundamentals...