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Also plainly visible from the fjord is Norse King Haakon's long, plaster-white Kongelige Slot or royal palace. Among connoisseurs the Slot is recognized as Norway's architectural family skeleton. Cheaply and hastily thrown together when the present dynasty of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg was established in Norway in 1905, it compares pitiably with Sweden's imposing Kungliga Slottet in Stockholm (Venice of the North), whence came last week Princess Martha to Oslo. As every Scandinavian knows the Kings of Sweden were also the elected Kings of Norway from 1814 until 1905, when the Storting (parliament...
...project as Chicago's. He is donating his services and he contemplates the work with a festal excitement which no salary could induce. Architects and designers enjoy world's fairs as spectacular outlets for their creative urge, and this time Chicago will not tolerate a stale display of plaster-of-paris Classicism, bad Byzantine and garbled Gothic. The architecture will be 20th Century in spirit and detail...
William McAndrew, refugee from stormy political seas as a onetime Super intendent of Schools in Chicago, recently suggested belladonna plasters for seasickness. As editor of the Educational Review he was mindful of a current propensity among patient pedagogs for elaborate research and profound tabulations. Placing his tongue ever so slightly in his cheek, Dr. McAndrew tabulated his belladonna-plasters-for-seasickness research as follows: Number reporting having used bella donna plasters..............6 Number reporting having escaped from sea sickness..........6 Median.................................................................................................6 Correlation............................................................................Per cent. 100 Number seen by me who said they were wearing 'em...........5 Number...
...steps of the Treasury Building he climbed, strode into the elevator, stepped out at the second floor and entered the big, dark, deep-carpeted office of Secretary Mellon. There he examined plaster models of the Government's new office buildings. Mr. Mellon stooped to point out the details. . . . Later the President walked briskly back to the White House...
Inquiry established the fact that the flaming kettles belonged where they were and in fact were necessary to dry out plaster in cold weather. The alarm was attributed to a passing law student who caught sight of flames in the supposedly deserted addition...