Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's new Federal Security Administrator, Paul Vories McNutt, was confirmed in office last week by the Senate. He promptly proceeded to evacuate the Public Health Service (one of his charges) from its handsome three-story stone home on Constitution Avenue. "Finest campaign headquarters in America," cracked an observer, and at White House press conference, reporters asked Franklin Roosevelt sly questions about his appointee's chances for the 1940 nomination. This irritated the President, who lectured his hearers about reading political implications into the appointment. But he, too, was sly. He explained that Indiana's McNutt...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) continues the adventures of the Hardys of Carvel, the old judge (Lewis Stone), his long-suffering wife (Fay Holden), moony Marian (Cecilia Parker) and bratty Andy (Mickey Rooney). The Hardys' wholesome, homey doings are designed to arouse in their millions of fans no emotion stronger than delighted recognition. Andy, more than ever the tail that wags the Hardy dog, reacts to spring by falling in love with his pretty new dramatics teacher (Helen Gilbert...
...none radically modern. This time he wanted a church that would look as useful as he thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm of (Carl J.) Bard & (J. Victor) Vanderbilt came forward with a design that Father Troy recognized as his nightmare...
...suggested by the main rural exposition building at Brno, Czecho-Slovakia, St. Austin's was designed as a simple parabolic vault with the parish house springing out at right angles from the apse. As simple and logical inside as out, the church's altar of native Kasota stone is focused by radiating rustication. The auditorium's only gadget is useful: a glass enclosed gallery where mothers may sit with infants likely to cry. Dedicated three weeks ago, St. Austin's design has done nothing but please its congregation...
...mansions on Nob Hill (where Mark Twain dreamed of living some day), bought the elegant, satin-lined carriages that rolled over San Francisco's plank streets. They paid for San Franciscans' one-pound gold watches, their champagne (seven bottles to Bostonians' one), their imported building stone from China, accounted as well for San Francisco's 1,000 yearly suicides...