Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, before opening a campaign to dissuade home-builders from stucco and brick, invited the public to invent a rallying-cry. Last fortnight first prize ($5,000) went to one James E. Noble Jr. of Sanitorium, Miss., for his lofty "Certified by Centuries of Service." Tersely quieting the fears of those who worry about deforestation, the slogan, "Wood, Use It-Nature Renews It," won second prize ($2,000) for Mrs. Dora Davis Farrington of Interlaken, N. J. Less clever, by one word, a Mrs. Maud Burt of Marshalltown, Iowa, thought of "Use It-Nature Renews...
This gave them an opportunity to look over Cozumel, island off the coast of Yucatan, and to discover, in a cave at Ucul ("hidden water") a shrine to the Mayan rain god, an excellently preserved little building whose stucco, after centuries of exposure, is still white...
Free, he went home to his 79-year-old mother, took a two-story stucco building and filled its walls with windows. "Some of us have not seen much sunshine," he said. Then he took in men he had known -a pardoned murderer, an embezzler, a forger-and let them work on at the trade they had learned in prison, rigging ship models, turning radio cabinets, joining chairs...
...HAUNTED HOUSE?Hilaire Belloc, illustrations by G. K. Chesterton ?Harpers ($2.50). Rackham, also known as Rackham Catchings, was a nice house for a murder. Part of it was built in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Various stucco wings added to its ugliness through the ages. Among other things, it contained "many a bad watercolour by ladies of the place, living and dead; a few portraits in the drawing-room, one of which, almost black, was reputed to be a Gainsborough." Rackham had come into the possession of Mrs. Hilda Maple, a widow with a business head. She filled...
...must never mean discomfort. Aesthetically the book parallels the current literary renaissance of early America. If widely read, it should speed the arrival, in districts beyond New England, Philadelphia and Baltimore, of styles in architecture and decoration which, once indigenous, were successively entombed by the brownstone, red-plush, cupola, stucco, Frank Lloyd Wright and Grand Rapids eras...