Word: mansard
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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...
...scene at the admitting ward of New York's Bellevue Hospital is one that haunts prowlers about the city. Mansard windows look down from a great grey building at a quadrangle dismal even in daytime. Four or five ambulances are always in the court; the ambulance surgeons (hospital internes in wrinkled white) fidgeting in and out of the admitting ward...
...Yard that harbors the chief of fenders. Robinson and Emerson, belonging to the begianing of the present century, and Sever, an atrocity of the early 80's are matched in inconsistency by Boylston Hall, which goes back to 1857 and sports fancy round windows and a very bad French mansard. Enormous, out of all proportion to everything else, the mass of, the Widener Memorial Library thrusts itself into this space. Belonging to what may be called the modern "librarian" brand or stack house type of neo-classical architecture, this big structure presents a serious problem to the harmonizers...
...Childe Hassam, Gertrude Whitney and Robert W. Chanler. The metropolitan critics, loyal patriots all, generously discussed the merits of the U. S. paintings: "Jazz," an experiment in abstract form by Man-Ray, an American living in Paris; a picture by Edward Hopper of a lonely blue house with a mansard roof, a lookout and three men in a boat called "The Bootleggers"; Thomas Benton's "New England." These subjects are indeed native. But if Mrs. Harriman has rendered an important service to art in her tri-national exhibition (and it is general opinion that she has), her service has been...