Word: grander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then, bobbing up. for the third time, Frank Lloyd Wright has done per-haps his most amazing work. In 1929 he designed for Manhattan an apartment house of concrete, steel and glass more radical and inventive than any even proposed in functionalist Europe. This and a grander design for a desert resort in Arizona were kept off the ground by Depression. Wright's desert camp of canvas and boxwood, built by his apprentices in 1929, stands as one of his most brilliant pieces of geometrical design. Still ignored by conventional architects, never invited to take part...
...month for ten months. Ruinous rate wars broke out among competing companies, however, and the fare to Boston was once as low as $1, to Providence 50?. When Financiers Jay Gould and Jim Fisk got their powerful hands on the line, competition turned from rates to magnificence. Staircases became grander, chandeliers larger and more glittering, furnishings and decorations more sumptuous. In 1883 appeared their first iron-hull vessel, the Pilgrim, which carried 675 passengers. It was taken for granted that anyone would sleep better in a Fall River berth than in his own bed. Food was good and plentiful...
...rascally theatrical entrepreneurs (Adolphe Menjou and Joe Cawthorn) engaged in fleecing a stingy dowager (Alice Brady) who hires them to produce a charity show on a shoestring. Dick Powell, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert and Dorothy Dare appear in their usual capacities, help put the production on a grander scale than anything ever seen outside a Warner sound stage. Trick shot: an unidentified tap dancer's feet photographed from below, through a glass floor...
...contributed to the worthy from the stores laid up by their slave-trading, rum-running, bundling ancestors, were losing their grip. The day of the Copley-Plaza arrived, and with it cosmetics, and the knowledge that the world is large. Entertainment was a bit gayer, a bit grander, though never ostentatious. And every Back Bay Lass chosen for the Vincent Club looked a bit closer for the right undergraduate from Cambridge. For then Boston was Harvard...
...Prittwitz, a relative of Germany's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Baron Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron. "I think it is amusing for a police chief to accept challenges from men he is forced to arrest." chuckled Chief Diels. "I love to fight. There's no grander feeling than beating your man in a fair fight. I shall fight them all! As to the pistol duel 'unto death' - well, that's fate...