Word: nash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of these charred, strewn, gaping images, signed by such names as Wren, Adam, Nash, Soane and Stuart, make a moving reaffirmation of their dignity and style. Ruin sometimes adds beauty as well as pathos. Says Architectural Writer J. M. Richards in an eloquent preface: "The architecture of destruction not only possesses an aesthetic peculiar to itself, it contrives its effects out of its own range of raw materials. Among the most familiar are the scarified surface of blasted walls, the chalky substance of calcined masonry, the surprising sagging contours of once rigid girders and the clear siena colouring...
...when items like automobiles can again be produced in limited quantities, the reconversion problem must be faced head on. Sample question, already hissing around Detroit: Must Packard go on making Rolls-Royce airplane engines while Chevrolet-or Ford or Dodge or Nash-begins making cars...
Since U.S. Unitarians changed their chief officer (in 1938) from a President to a Moderator, Unitarian Churches have been headed by a penologist (Sanford Bates), two college presidents (Mills College's Aurelia Reinhardt, Toledo University's Philip C. Nash). Last week the American Unitarian Association's executive committee nominated a Senator-Harold Hitz Burton, co-author of the Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution (TIME, March 22). The 55-year-old Senator and three-time mayor of Cleveland will take office at the Unitarians' annual meeting next...
...smoker the other evening. Although a model of decorum and good clean fun, there was an atmosphere of festive gaiety enjoyed by all in attendance. The company's talent been to be uncovered. Much more is expected for our next, now that the ice is broke (Ogden Nash's advice on ice breaking "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker...
...Nash's chief municipal study was in the art of low bidding for Chicago's fat sewer contracts. When shrewd Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak was killed in 1933 by a Miami assassin's bullet (intended for F.D.R.), Nash eased into the saddle, made a mayor of onetime Sewer Engineer Edward Joseph Kelly, soon began a series of colorful, losing battles for statewide power with the late Governor Henry Horner. The Nashist approach: "I like to be called a boss, even...