Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with good fishing, canoeing, hot and cold water, bellboy service. To design it, 85 youths were commissioned. They made preliminary sketches. Of these, five were chosen. They made complete plans. Last week the five waited on a fire-escape in Manhattan while inside a group of judges, headed by patrician Whitney Warren, famed architect, sat to find out which was the best. One Percival Goodman, 21, was presently informed that he had designed the pleasantest home for tire filibusterers, won thereby a scholarship of $3,000, two and one-half years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris...
...with good fishing, canoeing, hot and cold water, bellboy service. To design it, 85 youths were commissioned. They made preliminary sketches. Of these, five were chosen. They made complete plans. Last week the five waited on a fire-escape in Manhattan while inside a group of judges, headed by patrician Whitney Warren, famed architect, sat to find out which was the best. One Percival Goodman, 21, was presently informed that he had designed the pleasantest home for tire filibusterers, won thereby a scholarship of $3,000, two and one-half years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris...
...line of peers, he says: "And I've leaped from a few docks myself"; when asked if he knows the King's English, he replies that so was the Prince of Wales. There is a Victor Herbert waltz; Dorothy McNulty dances with graceful velocity; Miss Joyce Barbour contributes a patrician presence; Vannessi, the stupidest-looking beautiful woman on the U. S. stage, rolls her eyes...
...Harvard's specialty, the nouveau riche Business School can no longer contend with the patrician. Law School for this honor. It belongs to neither of them. Now that the fact is established, it seems strange no one had thought of Landscape Architecture before. Bald headed barbers have always been the leading authorities on how to keep the chevelure long and dlustrous. In like manner bachelors and spinsters are the leading lights upon the care and feeding of infants. So too, the School, or Department, or Course--whichever it is--of Landscape Architecture is Harvard's specialty, as the beauty...
Honorable Myron T. Herrick, a fine patrician head; John D. Rockefeller, another; also many severe and solemn babies in red French stone line the walls of the gallery of Messrs. Scott and Fowles...