Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Required reading in several texts will also be assigned. The fee for the course is five dollars, and enrollment may be made in person or by mail at 11 Weld Hall...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Baker House in 1947, he turned out the whole staff at midnight, for three hours paced the office floor without a word, thinking furiously, finally dashed off the drawings. Believing that "the Creator created paper for making architectural drawings," Aalto refuses to open mail, replies only to telegrams. Accepting a commission to act as a consultant to Helsinki's city planning commission, he insisted on a clause that the city fathers would not badger him with too many conferences. As an artist-architect, he controls the design to the smallest detail...
...Mail Call. Napoleon took an immediate dislike to Lowe ("a most villainous face") and regularly called him a "hired assassin" with "hyena's eyes." Lowe insisted that Napoleon be referred to as "General Bonaparte"; Napoleon insisted that he was the "Emperor Napoleon," and refused to accept his mail or his own doctor's reports unless so addressed. When
Lowe had the mail thrown on Napoleon's table, Napoleon barred his doors and threatened to make a corpse of any British officer who broke them down. None did. While the British themselves were spending ?250,000 a year to guard Napoleon, Lowe was ordered to cut Bonaparte's household from ?18,000 to ?8,000. Napoleon promptly had his table silver pounded into a shapeless mass, weighed and sold openly in town. Vindictively Lowe restricted Napoleon to a shadeless plain for horseback riding, and forbade him to enter his own garden after dusk...
...neat generation." Chicago-area stores reported that their best sales to teen-age girls came in conservative, mannish-looking apparel: vests, West Point-styled jackets, wool poncho capes, hooded sweaters and jackets called "benchwarmers." New York's Peck & Peck said that sales from its mail-order back-to-school brochure are running 23% ahead of last year. Biggest demand is for old standbys such as polo and Chesterfield coats, but there is also a fad for kilt skirts and shaggy-dog coats. In Los Angeles the Smart Sixteen set is buying blankets for a sew-it-yourself skirt...