Word: porches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tottenville, N. Y. two grubby poodles dozed on the broken flagging beside the back porch of a two-story frame house one day last week. On the upper porch crawled Joseph Freyer, 14 months. He found a place where balusters were missing from the balustrade, crawled through, plumped 18 ft. down on the dozing dogs, was unhurt. So were the poodles...
...stone into a stout bag, and with some neighbors walked over to the river, into which he heaved the loaded bag. It floated down the river, over the falls, into the rapids 123 feet below. The party strolled back to Mr. Quick's home. On the front porch squatted the cat, licking its broken...
...vacation. The tender charm of the parental hearth. And he was saddened by the reflection that he had no home other than Harvard. True it was a fine place but there was no denying a lack of homely atmosphere resplendent in the surroundings. No milk-bottles on the back-porch, for instance...
Spreading a blob of mortar with a silver trowel, tapping lightly a great block of white limestone, Mrs. Herbert Hoover announced last week: "On behalf of the National Women's Committee of the Washington Cathedral, I declare that the first stone of the North Porch is duly and truly laid. May God bless and prosper the work of our hands upon us." The North Porch thus consecrated is the gift of U. S. womanhood to the nation's Westminster Abbey: the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, abuilding these many years on Mt. St. Alban...
...speckle U. S. suburbs. Designed by A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey, the Magic House has no excavated basement. The owner enters through the garage, climbs a staircase near the oil-burning furnace room to a duplex living room, dining room, library. The designers expect that the covered sun porch and outdoor living room will be the most popular feature of the house. They claim that the three-inch walls of aluminum and celotex are better insulated and more weatherproof than the eight-inch frame sidings of suburban cottages...