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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Words like these would have been unseemly from the mouths of the richly endowed gentlemen architects on whom U. S. Society relied during its last great period of building. Stanford White and Charles McKim were master eclectics who adapted the styles and ornament of Europe gracefully to New York and New England buildings. Ralph Adams Cram was responsible for the Gothic revival. Bertram Goodhue achieved the monumentality of West Point. From these men Wright was isolated by what in their day appeared to be his eccentricity. The isolation is now seen to have been more theirs than...
Lieber Meister. An erect, impudent youngster of 18, Frank Lloyd Wright arrived in Chicago in the spring of 1887 with three years of engineering school behind him in Madison. U. S. architecture was then on the rise from a period of post-Civil War jerry-building, and with the death of a great and sound Easterner, Henry Hobson Richardson, the year before, Chicago, rising from its ruins, had become the centre of excitement. Richardson's successor as No. i U. S. architect was an immaculate, brown-eyed little French-Irishman of haughty brilliance named Louis Henry Sullivan. Young Frank...
Against this argument the fact stands that, out of more than 150 clients, only three or four have been seriously dissatisfied over money or anything else. Both in the early Oak Park period and later, Wright has in general attracted clients who had enough money to be adventurous but not enough to be stuffy. His personal improvidence is legendary. But the best piece of evidence that Wright will, when really necessary, pay careful heed to the means of his client is the one-story, six-room, $5,500 house which he finished last month for Herbert Jacobs, a newspaperman...
...falls in skiing that are just as bad as in football. In football you have a long conditioning period, and the men warm up before they have physical contact. While here in skiing, people drive up to the mountains or take "snow trains," and to get up the actual mountains they use a tow. Then without any limbering up they start their downhill run. When they fall, something snaps, and there's another candidate for Stillman Infirmary...
Consistent scoring took place in every period. Cox, Hulse, and Willetts each made a goal in the first period. In the second period Cox made a goal unassisted, and Hulse also netted one. Hulse made the first goal in the third period, and second stringer Thomas made the other...