Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stripping the petticoat from architecture and making honest use of modern materials in building. But it remained for Le Corbusier to supply the crackling phrases which often did more to promote and popularize modern architecture than any number of houses in that style designed by less articulate fellow-workmen. Architect Le Corbusier's view of his own profession: "There is one profession and only one, architecture, in which progress is not considered necessary, where laziness is enthroned, and in which the reference is always to yesterday...
...famed actors who introduce their specialties as bit parts-George Arliss as the British Prime Minister and Walter Huston as the U. S. President, circa 1985 A.D. The film is an exciting if misleading cinematic horoscope to which futuristic fashion notes were contributed by Schiaparelli. Good shot: gas-masked workmen chatting via television telephones...
BROWNS original University Hall still stands, only very slightly altered. John Brown, pioneer overseas shipping magnate, himself laid its corner stone in 1770 and gave liquid encouragement to the workmen when each floor and the root was finished...
...know that the Comintern of Moscow is not that funny kind of Russian cabbage soup with sour cream in it. Exceptionally enlightened as to Communists, Canadians were offered a chance to elect Red M. P.'s last week by Incendiary Tim Buck who rushes about trying to win workmen's votes by showing them cablegrams of encouragement received from the World Communist Party Congress in Moscow (TIME, July 29, et seq.). Presenting candidates in only 15 ridings last week, the harried Communists offered Canadians a small chance to vote...
...unlucky janitor, going to lunch, turned back to get his coat. That was the last anyone saw of him alive. Suddenly the walls of the building flew out like the staves of a collapsing barrel. Two freight cars beside the loading platform were reduced to chips. Bodies of workmen landed in the street, one 50 ft. from the plant. A water tank sailed through the air, smashed an automobile flat as a cockroach. Shattered gas mains spread a sickening stench. Firemen, menaced by loops of live wires, were afraid to cut into the shambles with acetylene torches because of fumes...