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...form. Forty years later, Chicago's 1933 Century of Progress Exposition helped spread the gospel of contemporary architecture with its buildings in the "modernistic" style - forests of blue mirrors, thickets of chromium stair rails, and jungles of neon tubing; it also gave America the fan dance. New York's 1939 fair brought a sense of monumentality combined with reason to architecture, with its carefully planned plazas of glass brick and fluted stucco. It also floated the Aquabelle...
...served as a rifle rest. From that he had been able to track the slow-moving presidential car until it got past him, then got off three shots in about five seconds. After he fired, Oswald ran toward the center of the building and down an aisle to a stair well door. There, behind a few boxes of books, he thrust his carbine. He then hurried down the steps - and perhaps because he heard the oncoming foot steps of the motorcycle cop and Superintendent Truly - he ducked quickly into the lunch room...
Some of the most interesting exhibits have been built into the mansion and make the museum seem even more cluttered. Mrs. Gardner imported the columns of her Venetian palace from Italy. She transformed a Renaissance bedframe--elaborate filagree, wrought iron flowers and enamel medallion into a stair railing...
Seedy family house, two rooms in basement. Decor peeling, faded, floral and flyblown. If you are too late to secure this gem, we have a spare along the road, rather more derelict. A lightly built member of our staff negotiated the basement stair but our Mr. Halstead went crashing through...
...used $280,000 of it to buy St. Donat's Castle, a magnificent edifice begun in the 12th century by a Norman nobleman and modernized by William Randolph Hearst when Hearst purchased it in the '20s. Now the ancient corridors and narrow stone spiral stair wells echo to the footfalls of 55 boys from twelve nations...