Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liked was Raymond Hood. . . . Even if you look down the list through the ages Raymond Hood will stand out among the architects of all time as one who had the fortune and the genius to conduct radical experimentation with mass and color. Many have had this privilege on canvas or with clay, but it is rare for a man to be allowed to play around with steel and glass and stone in this fashion...
...buildings did not cumber the earth. Take, for instance, the Daily News Building and the Tribune Tower in Chicago. In both instances the passerby gets the effect that the structure is poised upon one toe and eager to float or fly. . . . Hood could do you a skyscraper which was ready for a fight or frolic...
...reason why he should not be one of the happiest inhabitants of heaven. There's so much work to be done. He will look at the streets of gold and the many mansions of jade and jasper and then if Hood carries with him something of his mortality he'll say 'Not that, let's have steel and glass.' And if he is still the man he was, which I most fervently believe, already the riveting machines have begun their fanfare within the pearly gates...
...racketeer, first introduced into U. S. fiction in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925). now looms large among U. S. villain-heroes. In the cinema he is still sentimentalized into a fiend or a Robin Hood, but in novels, which can afford to be more factual, he is beginning to appear in all three dimensions. Such a three-dimensional portrait of a racketeer is Brain Guy. A more honest and complete picture than The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19), it is written with lengthier brutality, will shock readers who dislike unpleasant subjects, but will entrance...
...Philadelphia the Orchestra begins its Robin Hood Dell concerts, with operas two nights a week under Alexander Smallens, who will commute between that city and New York...