Word: parallelogram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Administrator Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, laid out the site of New Orleans "in the form of a parallelogram, 4,000 feet long by 1,800 feet deep" and set a crew of convicts to work building the city. The area he marked off now constitutes the Vieux Carré, the old French Quarter of New Orleans, some 165 acres of picturesque wickedness, romantic associations, narrow streets and old Spanish dwellings, bounded by the Mississippi River, and Canal, Esplanade and Rampart Streets. It has been successively favored as a home for convicts, aristocrats, thieves and prostitutes, Italian...
Reporters know that the little parallelogram of green lawn beside the Yacht Squadron is many times harder to get into than the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. Royal influence means nothing at all to the Squadron's admission committee. Sir Thomas Lipton, probably the best known yacht owner in the world, was one of Edward VII's best friends. Despite all King Edward's blustering, the squadron consistently refused to admit Sir Thomas. No reasons were ever given, but gossipeers said it was because Sir Thomas was "in trade," that his America's Cup racing was considered...
...would have done this picture good, as many of the sequences, retained for their sentimental import, are merely tedious, and the whole thing is too long. Good shots: what the girl from the convent says when Novarro asks her if she would like to come home with him; harmonic parallelogram of nuns singing mass; the young singer, his old teacher, and their fat landlady singing a trio in a Madrid rooming house...