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This summer the Governor noticed that the visitors were taking over all the best rooms and trying to remodel the upstairs. In fact Senator Shipstead, no amateur architect himself, was planning to tear down the whole house and put up a new one, in which he had the master bedroom and Messrs. Stassen, Ball and friends had no rooms...
...Remodeled, redecorated, and furnished in part with Metropolitan Museum pieces of Early American vintage, Manhattan's 143-year-old Gracie Mansion was finally ready for occupancy as the City's home for its Mayor. Museum Director Francis Taylor dryly broke the news that Mayor LaGuardia had not set foot in the mansion since Park Commissioner Robert Moses had made the first move to remodel it last February. Said Taylor: "Commissioner Moses is trying to make an early American out of LaGuardia. The Mayor isn't too enthusiastic." The wallpaper in the Mayor's bedroom...
...Joel Goldthwait, mother of Nathaniel Saltonstall (first cousin of Governor-re-elect Leverett Saltonstall), who is the Institute's president and Boston's most eligible bachelor. She handed over her five-story house with no strings. Director Plaut would have liked to raise $25,000 to remodel it, but the war held him down. He settled for $4,000, contributed by Institute members, painted the red brick front grey, the front door bright blue, the interior pale blue. He lighted it by fluorescent indirect lamps...
Converting so much talk into a film required virtual scrapping of the Behrman version. Scripters Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein proceeded to remodel Hero Gaylord Esterbrook (James Stewart) into a country bumpkin with an odd flair for bright comedy. His hesitant romance and marriage with Actress Linda Paige (Rosalind Russell) becomes a slapstick backstage burlesque containing the only fun in the film. From then on Epstein gets tangled with Behrman in a confusing hodgepodge of drawing-room wit heavily weighted with dramatic overtones...
Life in London nowadays is not calculated to settle the nerves. If you go into St. James Park to feed the ducks on the lake, you will see holes in the ground-bomb shelters. If you plan to remodel your Victorian house in Chelsea, you must make provision for a steel cellar-bomb shelter. If you go for a spin in your little Vickers monoplane, you must watch for preposterous balloons dangling wires-defense against bombers. If you have a disproportionately long nose, you must be specially fitted for a gas mask...