Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as War Commissar "Klim" saw the over-sized cavalry geldings lumbering into one another and his men swinging wildly at the white willow-root ball, he began to cheer. His own Captain Horovenko, playing No. 1 for the "Red" team after six weeks of teaching, was crowding Mr. Thayer, No. 1 for the "White" team, for individual honors. The West Pointer could hit but Captain Horovenko could ride. The All-Russian "Red" team beat its coach, 5 to 4. Commissar "Klim" congratulated his men hoarsely: "The horses were less efficient than the riders. It was a hard-fought, clean...
Half century ago Holabird & Roche and Burnham & Root were Chicago's two top-flight architectural firms. Today's Holabird & Root is the inheritor of the talents of the older generation. Best known architectural-partnership (formed in 1928) west of the Allegheny Mountains, its main Chicago rival is Graham, Anderson, Probst & White whose new Field Building shows a vertical treatment typical of Holabird & Root...
...year separates the births of John Augur Holabird and John Wellborn Root. their graduation from the Beaux Arts in Paris, their architectural entry into Chicago. In 1919 they were both made partners in Holabird & Roche and young John Root had caught up with old John Holabird. Although their careers have been almost identical, the two Johns are not alike. To Mr. Root, now 47, generally goes credit for brilliant designs and breath-taking solutions; to Mr. Holabird, praise for mastering minutiae, overcoming practical obstacles. More social than his partner, chunky bespectacled Mr. Root enjoys peering at Lake Michigan from...
Holabird & Root designed a severe modern three-story set-back structure fronting the Outer Drive and connected with the existing building by five bridges over the Illinois Central Railroad tracks. Gallery walls will be movable, automobiles will be parked in the basement, escalators will carry visitors to air-conditioned floors. Light beams from sides and corners instead of top lights will illumine a collection of Monet, Davies, Vlaminck, Inness, etc. now stacked unseen in the basement...
Holabird & Root buildings reflect the quick brilliance of Root, the patient logic of Holabird. All Chicago knows their towering railroad-straddling Daily News Building, their Palmolive Building topped by the Lindbergh beacon, their Board of Trade Building which spans La Salle Street, their swift, swirling Chrysler Building on the Fair Grounds...