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...neat white ocean liner-an idea carried out with more zip if less simplicity than in a yacht club at San Sebastian, Spain, where it was tried by Architects Labayen & Aizpurua in 1929. Architect William Mooser Jr. can thank his architect father for Aquatic Park's excessively ugly background: a chocolate factory designed...
There was no sound. None from the puff that switched a cloud of frost against the panes. The innumerable snow moths spread themselves on the pane in rhythmic silence, dissolving, vanishing. Their motions were real quiet, against a background of silence. It was real quiet because their collisions with the glass should have broken the stillness; instead, the absence of a sound where there should have been one made a crevice in the night, transforming it into a riot of noise by contrast. Reflected in the glass he could see the flames in the fireplace lick across the wood, hushing...
...singlehanded capture of Aqaba, Mr. Antonius suggests, is bragging. Auda Abu Tayeh, ally of Feisal, planned the attack and, with Feisal's approval, executed it, independent of outside help. The Lawrence chronicle of British-Arab negotiations is "confused and chronologically impossible," his understanding of the forces in the background of the Arab revolt "palpably defective...
...American Way (by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart). After getting almost as much ballyhoo as a World's Fair, Kaufman & Hart's monster "spectacle" opened last week with a cast of 250. Against the animated background of an Ohio town, it tells the life-story of Martin and Irma Gunther (Fredric March and Florence Eldridge) from their arrival as immigrants, through joys and sorrows, poverty and wealth, until Martin is killed by a Nazi Bund while trying to prevent his grandson from joining...
...Henry quit Guaranty in 1931, having quietly acquired a financial background that fitted him to handle not only the fortune he had inherited from his father-in-law but other big sums that came under his control. He became president of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (endowment $20,000,000), a trustee of Cooper Union and council member of New York University, a director of Texas Co. and the U. S. Trust Co., acting president of New York Hospital, committeeman in many a charity drive...