Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lloyd Wright has gone back to Thoreau for common sense on building (TIME, Jan. 17), MARS architects and engineers invoked the authority of the Elizabethan Sir Henry Wotton, Izaak Walton's fishing companion, whose The Elements of Architecture defined good building as "commoditie, firmeness and delight." A "needs" section of the exhibit contained nothing less than a scheme for remodeling London, notable for its acceptance of the present radiating arterial roads and the insertion of park spaces between them so that a series of "green wedges" would penetrate almost to the centre of the city...
...debt charges. When RFC refused Erie's request for a $6,006,000 loan because Erie's wealthy parent company, the Chesapeake & Ohio, would not guarantee the loan (TIME, Jan. 17). the jig was up. Last week, therefore, Erie wearily filed a petition to reorganize under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act, its fourth reorganization in 100 years...
Though it has no ghost, Boundary Against Night has almost everything else- spies, detectives, a conspiracy hatched after dark in a deserted church; 3 mad philosopher who sees the coming of complete moral darkness over the earth; a blind hero; a section devoted to Boston during the police strike (which appears from this account a bigger show than the French Revolution) ; a mass of characters, largely Irish, drawn about equally from the police and the underworld; returned soldiers, as embittered as they are eloquent; three suicides, a rape, a robbery and a final thundering climax in which a crazy policeman...
...imperious drum beat and Teddy Wilson's rippling piano. But the event of the evening was the "jam session," effacingly noted as "no doubt the greatest contradiction a swing program could offer," but in effect a blaring success. Amiable Mr. Goodman seated himself in his reed section, his professional spectacles gleaming, and Count Basic began thumping a blues on the piano. For two or three choruses it looked as though the boys were not going to get off. Then the afflatus descended, Goodman took a chorus, Trumpeter Harry James cut one and the whole group swung out. The audience...
...ordinary Wikker standards, the other brother, Handel, was a freak. A onetime whaling captain turned vicar, Handel was expelled from the church when he got a farm girl in trouble. When she died in childbirth he settled down in the poorest section of his native village, became a sort of father confessor to the poor as well as a friendly enemy to the shipowner who ran the town. Until he was 60 Handel spent his days in a quiet round of preaching primitive Christianity, writing amateur science, philosophizing with his cronies, combatting the blackening meanness of his brother and sisters...