Word: tiled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the magazine gave in to its own sales talk, and moved from a drab San Francisco office building to a new, $500,000 ranch-house building in suburban Menlo Park, with glass partitions, barbecue pits, foot-thick adobe walls, floors of Indian-made tile, beams, acres of gardens. The staff, who mostly moved with it, prepared to welcome 10,000 friends at an open house that included a barbecue in their plant's radiant-heated patio...
...fine clothes, jewels and furniture to pay her debts, but she still owed thousands of pesetas. Street urchins mocked, "Yah, yah. Marquesita," as she trudged to work each morning. But the kind nuns in the hospital gave Carmen a brief smile as she pushed her rag over the tile floor...
Colonel Kinney and his party were driven to a large, tile-roofed Korean mansion -once elegant, now shabby-on the northern outskirts. Kaesong seemed to be brimming with Communist troops; the meeting house was surrounded by armed guards. Inside, the unarmed U.N. representatives were met by an unarmed five-man Communist team...
Sympathy aside, Ayrton patterns his pictures as rigidly as a tile floor. "There's an abstract under every Ayrton," he says. But his abstractions are well disguised. "I refuse to accept formal equivalents of a triangle for a breast, or two dots for an eye. I have no desire to gouge a hole through a woman's figure. Trouble is I'm so progressive I'm reactionary...
...handball court was built at the south east corner of the building, but this has long fallen into disuse, as has the swimming pool of white tile and marble next to the court. The pool is usually kept locked; firemen had to break down the door during Tuesday's blaze...