Word: grilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance of action at this session. But the President was comforted to hear that a canvass of 2,036 U. S. newspapers revealed 1,357 in favor of the World Court. ¶ Early one morning Mrs. Hoover motored down to the Union Station, hid herself behind the concourse grill while Boris, the President's valet, went through the gate and down the platform. A long Pullman train pulled in. Off hopped a little girl and boy in fur-trimmed blue coats. Behind them came their mother and a nurse carrying their baby sister. Boris took each child...
...floor. Anything, from a miscarriage to a murder, can happen there; almost everything does. Author Bennett shows how carefully set a stage the hotel guest sees; shows what hard and clever work goes on behind the scenes. After reading Imperial Palace you will see your next hotel dining room, grill room, lobby with a fresh...
...flour counter of the nation's chief grocery store, the new building is decorated throughout with a grain motif by Architects John Auger Holabird and John Wellborn Root. The entrance grill bristles with fuzzy sheaves and kernels, grain garnishes the elevator doors, flanking the clock outside stand a wheat-raising Egyptian and a corn-fed Amerindian. Ripe wheat heads were thrust into the hands of visitors on the opening day as they peeped into the main trading floor, 113 ft. x 163 ft., where business was going on as usual in the wheat pit (38 ft. across) and nearby...
...square-cut Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and his theory that architecture should be adapted to modern materials and building methods was justified when the structure withstood the earthquake of 1923. In Buffalo he built a factory for Larkin Co. which was one of the first to emphasize pier and grill construction. The ateliers of Europe long ago paid respect to Architect Wright. Progressive U. S. architects long ago fell in with his rectilinear mode because it is easy to build. Hand-carved traditional ornament, always eschewed by Wright, is almost universally regarded now as an artificial extravagance in a machine...
...Douglas) to regain the bliss of their honeymoon in its original vicinity near Vichy, France. The man becomes practically convinced that reunion is desirable. The woman feels sure it is not. Their differences are settled when she is killed in the collapse of a hotel elevator. This florid metal grill contrivance, in the best open Gallic style, is the most interesting element, architectural or personal, in the play...