Word: mansard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goes My Love (Skirball-Manning, Universal), based on Hiram Percy Maxim's reminiscences of his inventor parent (A Genius in the Family), is a sort of utility-grade Life with Father, told chiefly in terms of what it does to Mother. Time & place: Brooklyn, in its mansard-capped prime. Since Son Percy (Bobby Driscoll) is a regular little heller and Father (Don Ameche) a regular social booby trap, life is anything but simple for Mother (Myrna Loy). Finally one of Percy's pranks almost causes her to lose her second baby. But by dint of widespread praying...
...Type No. 4, the double-decker, that 19th-Century iron founders really went to town. After 1810, Classic Revivalists designed these things with pillars, cornices, lyre scrolls, fluting and acanthus leaves. About 1840, with the Victorian Age, gimcrackery went wild. Fancy stoves were designed like houses, with mansard roofs and movable iron puppets in the windows. There were also Chinese pagodas with swinging bells. In the most restrained taste was a job turned out by a Troy, N.Y. foundry (see cut), possessing a large humidifier urn on top, in which the housewife could put oil of cloves, cinnamon or verbena...