Word: te
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Every one who attended, or had first-hand knowledge of the Latin Quarter Fête given by the Architects of Chicago, was disappointed in your article "Fête Charrette" (TIME, Oct. 10). To do something creatively important enough to receive TIME'S interest is an honor. To do something important, to receive the interest of TIME'S correspondent, to give him all the facts and then to have only the facetious angle presented by the editors, is disappointing...
...architectural profession is striving to carry on, to believe in beauty, and to eat during a period of no building. The Architects of Chicago, having no outlet through steel and stone and brick, created with ideas and canvas and paint, a Latin Quarter Fête. We employed 75 draftsmen, many of whom had been out of work for months. Many of these men were Beaux Arts men-some of them Paris Prize men. They worked creatively and happily, for a small daily wage, in order that a greater number might be employed. These men created the loveliest scene ever...
...stranded without work. Having read reports of the progressive cocktail parties, exhibitions of hobbies and other festivals by which Eastern architects were attempting to take care of their unemployed (TIME, Feb. 22; June 6), a committee of Chicago architects organized the affair, which was unofficially called a Féte Charrette. Survivors last week were still too disorganized to know just how much money had been raised beyond expenses...
...rest on a 'Nelpha' mattress or bedstead." Dublin set up floodlights and searchlights, asked its citizens to help with electric lights and candles. An arclight, most powerful ever rigged up in Dublin, would write in the sky such inscriptions as "Hail the King-Adoremus-Laudamus Te." President Eamon de Valera's journal, The Irish Press, urged the Irish to plant trees in commemoration of this event, "one of the greatest ... in Irish history." So that visitors might drink freely of Ireland's excellent whiskies and malt brews, all Irish Free State circuit judges were permitted...
...Shilling Shockers of the Gothic School", a thesis written by William Why'te Watt '32, of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, will be published according to the decision of the Committee of the Publication of Honors Thesis in English. Watt's thesis will be the only one printed this year...