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Between his summer home on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., and his brokerage offices in Manhattan, Richard F. Hoyt commutes at 100 miles an hour. He uses a Loening amphibian biplane, sits lazily in a cabin finished in dark brown broadcloth and saddle leather, with built-in lockers containing pigskin picnic cases. Pilot Robert E. Ellis occupies a forward cockpit, exposed to the breezes. But occasionally Broker Hoyt wishes to pilot himself. When this happens he pulls a folding seat out of the cabin ceiling, reveals a sliding hatch. Broker Hoyt mounts to the seat, opens the hatch, inserts...
...Should it approach on a mission of destruction, it could open fire with a battery of artillery. And should a defending airplane squadron seek to rise over it and destroy it with bombs, the dirigible would send out five full-sized planes, carried underneath the bag and launched from built-in runways. Having left the Stadium, the ship could then travel to any European capital and return without having to refuel. It could bring back its five planes, also, for it is so built that planes not only can be launched from it but also land...
...vases, jars, bookends, ash trays. They caved in the forehead of the youngest Lommelini (by Van Dyck), raked the mother's face with chair legs, sent a bottle-neck through the Lommelini daughter's cheek. One of them yanked open the vitals of a $17,000; built-in parlor organ; twisted the pipes, knocked off stops, walked on the keys, stamped, scuffed, dug with heels...
...roof of the southern side of the building is a tower suggestive of that on Harvard Hall. The south side of this set of buildings, contains, on the ground floor, the common room and dining room, one at either side of a central door. The common room has built-in, leather upholstered, wall seats of generous dimensions and panelled walls of weathered oak. At one end is a fire-place for three-foot logs. The dining room also has its fireplace...
...rooms and studies in all the dormitories are typically colonial. The studies have broad windows with built-in window seats and the finish is white enamel in bedroom, study and bath room. All the doors are wide and white, with heavy brass handles and on the outside doors are hospital thumb-latches. The large general rooms have ample air space, and the bedrooms and studies are nine feet high...