Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...existence of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Erotic and impulsive, he deserted his wife and six children to live with a Mrs. Mamah Bostwick Cheney and her two children, family of a Chicago businessman. For himself and them he built a splendidly original home on a rocky hill at Spring Green, southern Wisconsin. A thin-lipped Barbados Negro, their butler, one day chopped Mistress Cheney, her children and four neighbors to death with an axe and burned down the house. When Architect Wright rebuilt it, Miriam Noel, English sculptress who had fallen in love with his picture, joined him first...
...basic philosophies of his buildings are: 1) They, especially homes, should be constructed as integral parts of their landscapes and of the materials of the neighborhood. His thrice-built home at Spring Green seemed a rocky outcropping of the hill itself. 2) Buildings (factories, theatres, hotels) should interpret the spirit as well as suit the use of their occupancies. This has created blocky, mechanistic, "modernistic" structures. His most representative factory building is that of the Larkin Co. at Buffalo; his best hotel the Imperial at Tokyo, famed for octagonal copper bathtubs and "skyscraper" furniture. People for whom he builds homes...
...pictures; in spite of his size he wants to make a cinema of Rostand's L'Aiglon, playing the little prince. After being engaged for two years to Joan Crawford, whom his father and stepmother, Mary Pickford, were rumored not to like much, he married her last spring in Manhattan. Some of his pictures : A Woman of Affairs, The Barker, Fast Life...
Indications have not been wanting that the need for remedying the maladjustment has been recognized. The Commission appointed by President Hoover last spring for the study of law enforcement, as a member of which Dean Pound is at present on a leave of absence from the University, is the most conspicuous example, but law schools all over the country, notably at Yale and Johns Hopkins, are carrying on allied investigations. The Institute of Criminal Law inaugurated at Harvard earlier in the year is also working along the same general lines towards a reform in the criminal code. To these analyses...
Perhaps the fact that college years begin in the fall has something to do with it too. The adjectives applied to autumn weather--crisp, brisk, stimulating--are always suggestive of activity. Who knows what the effect would be if the opening came during that first warm spell when spring fever is rampant? In the midst of February slush when even the boardwalks in the Yard are under water or during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There...