Word: rooted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cezanne ... is a type of frustration, a man who never fully mastered his craft and in consequence couldn't fully express what was struggling within his cosmos, but at least he had a groping toward the root of the matter...
...inevitable that the success of Holabird & Root should encourage the modernist faction in the Architectural League. Added to this, perhaps a larger proportion of the exhibits than ever before displayed the influence of utility and simplicity. Even in domestic architecture there were more plain surfaces, less elaborately romantic Tudor, more convenience and less picturesqueness...
Holabird & Root are both sons of able architects. John Augur Holabird's father, William Holabird, established the firm of Holabird & Roche early in the century. Son John, 43, was born in Evanston, went to the Hill School, to West Point, to the Beaux-Arts. In 1919 he joined his father's firm, helped design the Chicago Temple Building, Grant Park Stadium (Soldier Field, famed scene of Tunney's second victory over Dempsey), Palmer House, Stevens Hotel, all of Chicago...
John Wellborn Root, 42, succeeded to the name and profession of his father who was chief architect of the Chicago World's Fair until his death in 1891. After Cornell and the Beaux-Arts, John Jr. won third prize in the competition for the Chicago Tribune Building. The firm was reorganized as Holabird & Root...
Birthday. Elihu Root, 85, onetime (1899-1904) Secretary of War, of State (1905-09), onetime (1909-15) U. S. Senator, most famed U. S. Elder Statesman; at Manhattan, in good health...