Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ARCHITECTURAL FORUM for April brought discussion of low-cost houses down to brass tacks, the two sharpest being 1) that more than 70% of U. S. families now earn less than $2,000 a year, and 2) that the 35% with incomes between $1,000 and $2,000 in good times and bad make up a vast and virtually untapped market for building. For this 35%, houses must cost from $4,000 down. ARCHITECTURAL FORUM gave architects virtually the first survey of the problems of designing houses in this price range, which they have hitherto ignored...
...factors, shows that such houses must not cost much more than $3,300. Under present conditions this usually means either 1) a two-story box with six rooms or a one-story bungalow with five; 2) a lot not over 40 ft. wide; 3) quantity building on more or less identical plan. The challenge to architects: to face this fundamental problem in design, which now in many cases goes by default to builders without benefit of architect, with frequently characterless results...
...next week Father Williams is to be an attending presbyter at the consecration of his predecessor, Bishop-elect Burton. At this service no vimpas will be used: the consecrator will be the Presiding Bishop of the Church, Henry' St. George Tucker, who has never worn a cope, much less a mitre...
...Less formidable dramatists than Behrman have had a go at this plot, but much of the time Behrman handles it with adroitness and wit. The trouble is that Behrman, a Frederick Lonsdale who reads The New Republic, too often makes sex a mere come-on for ideas, none of which he accepts. He is a kind of ideological window-shopper; or, like Pooh-Bah, a Leader of the Opposition, he feels he must resist what he approves of as First Lord of the Treasury...
Last week, for the first time in 27 years, it was a rainy Patriots' Day. Less than 100,000 spectators lined the 26-mile, 385-yard route, from the little town of Hopkinton-via Natick, Wellesley and Newton -to the Boston A. A. clubhouse on Exeter Street. But the rain that was responsible for the smallest turnout in many years was also responsible for a new record in the annals of the ancient sport of foot racing...