Word: truss
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...whole stageful of sophisticates, including the novelist's mistress, a South American general, a shy French playwright, brilliantly acted by Austrian Oscar Karlweis, and a fat, macabre play director, who threatens just before the body is found: "I'll club him to death with his own truss." Crime Club members may get to thinking about the denouement and decide they were robbed. Less sophisticated mystery lovers probably get their money's worth...
...exhibition, Wright's show was no masterpiece. Its lack of explanations and jumble of diagrams left non-technical gallerygoers wondering what most of it meant. But for those who could tell a cantilever from a truss, it recorded as exciting a body of architectural thinking as has come from the brain of anyone since Michelangelo. Regarded by many as the greatest architect of the 20th Century, Frank Lloyd Wright is conceded even by skeptics to have one of the most restless and imaginative minds the art of architecture has ever known. Architect Wright began designing functional buildings...
...whence the elevated highway turns north to Randalls Island. There occurs the Y's split, one arm reaching across the Harlem River on the world's biggest (but not heaviest) lift bridge to Manhattan, the other crossing The Bronx Kills to the mainland by means of three truss spans...
...took police three hours to lasso and truss Sergeant Finnegan. By that time surrounding schools had sent 25 busloads of school children to learn about sea lions, and a sea lion expert had pointed out that Sergeant Finnegan was a female. She was renamed Mrs. Finnegan or Judy O'Grady. A U. S. geodetic survey truck took Mrs. Finnegan on a triumphal ride across the State toward the Pacific, stopping at gas stations to hose and exhibit her. When she was dumped onto the beach at Nelscott, she again took an unconventional line in refusing to go into...
...shallow horseshoe of boxes to see how many and which Insulls, McCormicks, Ryersons, Fairbankses, Fieldses, Cranes. Swifts, Thornes and family jewels are present, Chicago first-nighters will see the black-haired girl and her white camels vanish upward (the stage ceiling is supported by a 73½ foot steel truss, the largest ever used, capable of carrying more than 11,000,000 pounds). After Conductor Giorgio Polacco has become a shadow in a bowl of shadow, his shirtfront and the tip of his nose touched with golden light from the page in front of him, the familiar strains...