Word: mansard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago early this week 30 bright young men filed into a big, weathered mansard mansion on Prairie Avenue to begin a year's study of principles which have made that house and houses like it as ugly and obsolete as a dinosaur. The school in which they were enrolled and whose chances appeared excellent of profoundly affecting the habits of U. S. builders had a name exciting to all architects and designers: the New Bauhaus (Building House). Its right to that title was as clear as the glass with which its students will be taught to build, because...
Paris was the city of the world; Paris was the capital of France; Paris was a dull and dowdy city. The Sun King looked on the leprous walls and shuddered; he would build a new and sparkling place, a bright and spangled royal home. So he called to him Mansard and the world came to know of gabled roofs, and he called to him Colbert and France was stirred by her first fear of the Bourbonic plague. Versailles was piled high and the long hedges moved out around the fountains. Colbert shook his head and brought out great books...
...seventies, the eighties, and the nineties, this "Gazette" was a power in the land. Then all America, save for wicked Manhattan, was one vast hinterland. Men gathered their families under mansard roofs; little girls in gingham and pigtails kicked their high shoes against the scrollwork of the porch. When the broad highway was muddy wagon track, men made no stir to journey afield. The village bar answered a man's thirst; and in the village barber-shop every voice had its part...