Word: rectangularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THESE windows are not the rectangular apertures of light that mount endlessly each on each to the twilight skyline of a great city. Rather are they, as the jacket represents them, windowns of various shapes, patterns, and sizes, in a jumbled and overlapping mass. For, although Mrs. Woodward's volume deals with the business world, it does so in an autobiographical manner which puts quite out of mind the simulated order of mahogany desks. The authoresa, has found in her business career a succession of human ontacts and exhibitions of ingenuity which suggests that the day of standardization...
...February, Rowe and Greenlees were astonished to find in the rock surface a rectangular bed of plaster of paris. There seemed to have been little attempt at concealment because with the mud and small pieces of rock conglomerate brushed off the plaster was instantly recognizable. The rectangular shape seemed definitely to show that a stairway was cut into the rock and had been filled up to the surface with plaster The tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings had just such an entrance but it was filled only with debris. At Thebes, however, there was not so great...
...stood in a window recess. We had a splendid view of the Thames, and one of us-I think it was Anthony Hope-expressed regret that so glorious a landscape and such graceful arches as characterized the stone bridges should be marred by a rectangular iron railway structure. H. G. Wells interrupted...
...change in the topic meant no change in the quality of his discourse. The Charing Cross bridge was ugly, materialistic, rectangular. To people like Bigelow anything curved is more beautiful than anything rectangular...
Before actually closing the Holy Door, the Pope immersed his blessed trowel in holy water, dried it on especially blessed linen. He scooped up a little mortar; picked up three small rectangular stones emblematic of the Trinity; set each carefully in place, saying: "In fide et virtute domini nostri Jesu Christi filii Dei vivi." With the second trowelful he said: "Qui apostolorum principi dixit tu es Petrus"; and with the third: "Et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam." Into a special crevice he had placed coins and medals commemorative of the Holy Year just then closed for at least another...