Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first state-financed theatre in the country and the first professional theatre built in the Boston area since 1925 was dedicated last Thursday evening by Governor Furcolo in an impressive ribbon-cutting ceremony backed by the firing of cannon and the blaring of medieval trumpets...
...days behind; and the actors had not yet even tested the stage. Failure seemed assured. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers were still operating and workmen were still driving stakes. But at eight o'clock the Governor and other prominent citizens arrived by boat for the formal ribbon-cutting dedication of the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center. And a half hour later, the Theatre lights went down and the Cambridge Drama Festival's inaugural performance got under way right on time...
Acknowledged shrine of modern architecture was the famed Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany, and Architect Walter Gropius was its high priest. The boxy building with flat roofs and ribbon-glass windows that Gropius built there in 1926 laid down the line architecture was to follow for the next three decades. An exile from Hitler's Germany, Gropius introduced his methods as chairman of Harvard's department of architecture, revolutionized architecture in the U.S., became so firmly planted in architectural history that people were sometimes amazed to find him still a part of the present...
...Exeter, England, while Mrs. Diana Suthrell was waiting to receive a blue ribbon at an agricultural show, her prizewinning boar bit her on the hand...
...small as itself: C. E. Unterberg, Towbin Co., a two-man firm that operates a one-room office and has won itself a red-hot reputation introducing and making markets for midgets. So successful is the firm that on the F X R issue, a string of blue-ribbon houses-Lee Higginson Corp., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co., Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis-were glad to come in on the deal, eagerly spread the stock around to their best customers. Within a week F X R went from $12 to $20 a share...