Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather than loaded gloves, but each bestirred himself energetically. Democrat Whitney, his beauteous second wife, three station wagons, a touring car and a four-piece band proceeded up & down the island making naive, earnest little speeches at village corners. Mrs. Whitney's hunter took a ribbon at the Piping Rock Horse Show. Republican Bacon's wife won two ribbons for table decorations at the Westbury Flower Show. The arch-Republican Herald Tribune reported the Whitney campaign on its society page. The Bacons gave a political tea party for 700 members of the Nassau County Federation of Republican Women. Last month...
...first nine days of the crossing except in the smoking room, where the Dutch Olympic team was en thusiastically breaking training. Rotterdam, the Dutch home port, was paralyzed by a seamen's strike. As the 21-year-old Rotterdam pushed her high prow past England's Bishop Rock, Rotterdam's strikers sent wireless messages to Rotterdam's crew. They were never delivered. Apparently acting under orders from the main office, Captain Van Dulken privately told his passengers that they would have to disembark either at Boulogne or Southampton. The news was quietly received...
...Macdonald), is trying to persuade fresh, serious Claire Windrew (Sally Bates) to break her engagement and marry him. Hilliard & Dale proceed to the hilarious business of disrupting the household, insulting everybody with epigrams. Particularly do they insult stodgy Mrs. Windrew (Charlotte Granville). Mary Hilliard rifles her liquor cabinet ("White Rock! My favorite drink!"). She picks her perennial roses ("It'll be next year before you know it"). She breaks up her jigsaw puzzle. To make Mrs. Windrew like Philip she invents for him a father who was killed at the aristocratic pastime of foxhunting...
Firm as a rock upon the Faith's foundations...
...working hours Wright had developed steel-&-glass city buildings, windows covering two sides of a corner, houses made as nearly as possible of one material, the cantilever foundation principle (Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, floated on a mud base to rock with earthquakes), and the unit cement block system of construction chiefly used in California. His great reputation is that of a revolutionist, based on his long campaign against traditional architecture and architects. Once considered in Europe the greatest U. S. architect, he was conspicuously omitted last year from the staff of architects for Chicago's Century of Progress...