Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taliesin," his Wisconsin stronghold. Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect whose friends have incorporated his genius for safe-keeping (TIME, Oct. 7), announced last week a new and puzzling project. For Manhattan's Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie he has designed four 18-story, glass-walled residential towers, intended to be the first demonstration of ideas which Architect Wright has mulled over for 30 years...
Dukes of Norfolk date their titles from 1483, Earls of Arundel from 1139. Arundel Castle, many times rebuilt, was a stout stronghold in King Alfred's time. Many, therefore, were the traditions to be observed last week by England's Norfolk, and to their strict observance he diligently attended...
...rank of mural decoration. But it is not their ugliness which would trouble the sensitive visitor. . . . [They] are out of place as the symbols of a bygone hatred. . . . They are of the stuff that is offensive to humanity and dangerous to peace . . . should be removed from the stronghold of academic freedom. They may well find a resting place, if resting place it is necessary that they have, in the memorial chapel about to be. The new chapel, it is averred, will not honor in its halls the Harvard War dead who were so unfortunate as to perish on the Teuton...
Food-and-fun-loving Charles Dickens told unctuously in A Christmas Carol how "The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks" for just such a feast as the City of London spread before Edward of Wales last week...
...collie victory broke a reign of terriers, which had lasted since 1922. To win first place Laund Loyalty had to be judged best collie, best working dog, best brace (teamed with Bellhaven Stronghold II) and best team (with Bellhaven Stronghold II, Bellhaven Brilliancy and Laund Lindbergh of Bellhaven). Second-best-dog was Eden Aristocrat of Wildoaks, a wire-haired fox terrier owned by Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bondy, of Golden-bridge, N. Y. Third was Herewithem J. P., a pointer, owned by Robert F. Maloney of Pittsburgh; fourth, King Pippin of Greystones, a Pekingese owned by Mrs. C. Hager...