Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wants, many a 1949 house-hunter begins with the notion that it ought to be something like Grandmother's. One of the first things he finds out is that the old place needed at least a servant or two to keep it up. Furthermore, it got that spacious look by having a lot of unused space, which Grandmother could afford when her house was built. Perhaps the home-builder should try something new. Flat-roofed, wide-windowed homes that looked queer ten years ago have since become a decorative part of the residential landscape Every major school of architecture...
Stucco on the Lawn. Called Kilometer 47 (because of its distance from Rio), the school spreads over 4,900 acres straddling the road to São Paulo. Its main buildings (yellowish stucco and red tile roofs) are set on spacious lawns landscaped with pools, palms and gravel driveways...
Last week, in the courtyard of Des Moines' handsome new Art Center, lowans gaped at a bronze stallion the likes of which had never been seen before. Mounted in the center of a spacious reflecting pool was the latest work of Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, a magnificent, larger-than-life Pegasus. Broad-beamed, with hefty wings spread, it zoomed through space at the angle of a sloop in a summer squall. Soaring precariously above was the horse's 1,000-lb. bronze rider, Greek adventurer Bellerophon (see cut), with arms outstretched and nine stout bolts through one foot...
...Angeles has its own brand of magnificence. It is amazingly clean, awesomely spacious. It has ramshackle houses, but in comparison with other big cities, no slums. Its great boulevards wind through miles of windblown trees, bright flowers and sweeping, emerald-green lawns. It is a Western town, with the memory of Deadwood and Virginia City in its bones; in its love of display, its detachment from the past and its obsession with its own destiny, it is simply striking the attitude of the gold seeker and the trail blazer...
...protection from the friends, neighbors, admirers and tourists who frequently overrun his ranch. Last week some of the visitors were being diverted to the nearby town of Roswell, N. Mex. by the new Hard wing of the Roswell Museum. It contained 31 of his lithographs and six of his spacious, sharply detailed paintings. The collection had been financed by an anonymous California donor, who planned to add more Kurd pictures each year...