Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glancing through the various specimens of journalistic endeavor that are the product of some of our more august contemporaries, we are lead to the conviction that culture of the collegiate Fourth Estate in the more urban and intellectually polished sections of our eastern United States is highly chimerical. Specifically do we refer to the current front pages of the "Daily Princetonian" and the "Harvard Crimson," whose make-ups bear voluminous descriptive stories of basketball games, alumni meetings, and polo contests, with too infrequent reference to matters of national and international import...
...straw was seen in the one-man show Joseph Urban is giving in Manhattan of his works. The straw was not in his arty designs but prizes which were awarded by the Architects' Emergency Committee with money collected from admissions to the Urban exhibition. They were for small houses suitable for mass production. If the design which won first prize ($100 plus employment) should be typical of the home of the future that home will be factory-fabricated at $3,000, will have a steel frame, modern simplicity of design. It will have no basement and part...
...Architectural League opened a one man show of the work of that gusty craftsman, Joseph Urban. It was more than a tribute. One dollar admission was charged for the benefit of the 1,700 unemployed draughtsmen...
...best architect in New York, jovial Joseph Urban is certainly the most spectacular. A great vat-shaped Viennese, 60 years old, weighing 230 Ih. according to his secretary's latest estimate, his first triumphs were the Khedive's Palace in Cairo; the Alexander Bridge over the Neva in Leningrad; the castle of Prince Esterhazy de Galantha in Hungary. In 1912 he brought a corps of Austrian scene painters to the U. S. to design scenery for the Boston Opera House. Its failure threw him on the mercy of Florenz Ziegfeld. Since then he has done about one-third...
...Dedicating their cellars, their kidneys to the cause, 16 architects went to a cocktail party at Mr. Urban's studio. Each guest was expected to pay $2, and promise to give another cocktail party in his home or office and invite twelve paying guests. Each of the twelve must invite eight, each of the eight, four-by which time 7,921 people will have contributed $15,842 to benefit the 1,700 draughtsmen, drunk approximately 31,-684 cocktails to the benefit of 1,536 bootleggers, eaten approximately 180 Ibs. of caviar to the benefit of the Union of Socialist...