Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arizona's Paradise Valley, where Frank Lloyd Wright and his students at nearby Taliesin West design homes for desert living. Realtor Merle Cheney bought 6,000 acres of land for as low as 25? an acre, now sells it at prices up to $3,000 an acre...
...ugly duckling," said Colorado's Governor Edwin C. Johnson. Virginia's Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson described it as "looking like nothing so much as an assembly of wigwams." Sketches of the chapel, said Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, should be studied for ten years and then thrown away...
Champagne Glass Trail. Archaeologist Seton Lloyd, director of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, tells in the Scientific American how British diggers uncovered Arzawa. First, Student James Mellaart reconnoitered southwestern Anatolia, looking for mounds, stones and bits of pottery. Some of the potsherds could be fitted together into graceful drinking vessels like champagne glasses. They led Mellaart, like bits of paper in a paper chase, to the centers of the long-forgotten culture, southeast of Istanbul...
...years since mordant Lyricist W. S. Gilbert thus mocked Britain's maligned Upper House of Parliament (in lolanthe), Her Majesty's Lords have had less and less to do with the making of British law or policy. Back in 1911, testy Commoner David Lloyd George, with the help of his King, cut the Lords' veto power to a mere delaying action. Six years ago, even their right to delay was curtailed...
...Died. Lloyd Paul Stryker, 70, nationally known criminal lawyer and master of old-style courtroom oratory, counsel for Alger Hiss in his first perjury trial (which ended in a hung jury); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...