Word: stonework
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frank Rizzo, whose official salary is $434 a week. But according to a series of stories in the Philadelphia Daily News, he has invested more than $400,000 in a swank new home in the Chestnut Hill section-including $20,000 for a three-car garage, $30,000 for stonework and $7,000 for a patio. "These are pure and simple political charges made by a newspaper that blatantly seeks to influence the outcome of the mayoral election in November," responded Mayor Rizzo. "This is a sad day for journalism...
...trains and ferries are packed with people. Suddenly the earth begins to tremble and sway, accompanied by a roar that some people liken to the sound of a hundred freight trains. Huge cracks open in streets and sidewalks. Shaken loose by the violent vibrations, tons of glass and ornamental stonework tumble onto the streets, crushing pedestrians and automobiles. Many older buildings collapse completely. Chinatown's famed Grant Street becomes a death...
...DRAWING of York Minister on the wall of Kiely's Widener office may have more than decorative value to its owner. The cathedral is one of the most impressive reminders of Catholic England, and the site of some of the best religious stonework of the Middle Ages. A director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Center, Kiely spent his sabbatical last year at Cambridge on a Prize Fellowship from the Society for Religion in Higher Education that allowed him to finish his second book and to continue his reading of religious literature. "I'm interested in the ways different writers have...