Word: pergola
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...never shines in Allen Street. The people there, denizens of Manhattan's lower East Side, go about in a latticework of shadows cast by the superstructure of the elevated railway, a vast and gloomy pergola rising to meet the rungs of blackened fire escapes which hang from the buildings like the foliage of a fantastic iron jungle. No. 63 Allen Street, near the corner of Grand, is a large green-painted wooden door with a rusty lock and bar. Above some ash cans floats a white hand in eerie benediction. Beneath the hand is painted: E. A. RIDLEY...
...must have been amazed recently to learn that it was selected as the place for a marathon to determine the fresh water swimming championship of the world. Scores of tubby natators plunged in, determined to negotiate the entire distance (24 miles) from the upper end to Fort William Henry pergola at the lower end. That meant between 15 and 30 hours in cold water nowhere over 60 degrees, in many spots 45 degrees. Among them were Ernst Vierkoetter, German conqueror of the English Channel, William Albert Ericson (the Bronx), Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel (the Bronx swimming teacher), Lucy...
...language, nobody. Her people were " impossible "?she was the small-time belle of the factory district. She spent her time in doing her best to imitate in dress, manners and looks the fashionable ladies she read about in the society columns. She even managed to build an imitation pergola in the back yard and swung there, in a Gloucester hammock, hoping, for a duke. She had an insatiable instinct for what people with private incomes like to call "nice things." When Stephen came along, he checked completely with all her aspirations. They fell in love and were married...
...corner of the new Avenue Louis Pasteur, Brookline, and for a spacious club-house on the opposite corner. The dormitory will provide small suites for the needs of the men, at the rear of which will be an enclosed garden and tennis courts, surrounded by a wall or pergola. The club-house or Medical School Union will contain commons, a library, and facilities for indoor games. An important feature will be a hall large enough to accommodate five hundred to a thousand men, a facility which is now lacking. This will not only provide room for the more important lectures...