Word: mansard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene at the admitting ward of New York's Bellevue Hospital is one that haunts prowlers about the city. Mansard windows look down from a great grey building at a quadrangle dismal even in daytime. Four or five ambulances are always in the court; the ambulance surgeons (hospital internes in wrinkled white) fidgeting in and out of the admitting ward...
...Yard that harbors the chief of fenders. Robinson and Emerson, belonging to the begianing of the present century, and Sever, an atrocity of the early 80's are matched in inconsistency by Boylston Hall, which goes back to 1857 and sports fancy round windows and a very bad French mansard. Enormous, out of all proportion to everything else, the mass of, the Widener Memorial Library thrusts itself into this space. Belonging to what may be called the modern "librarian" brand or stack house type of neo-classical architecture, this big structure presents a serious problem to the harmonizers...
...Childe Hassam, Gertrude Whitney and Robert W. Chanler. The metropolitan critics, loyal patriots all, generously discussed the merits of the U. S. paintings: "Jazz," an experiment in abstract form by Man-Ray, an American living in Paris; a picture by Edward Hopper of a lonely blue house with a mansard roof, a lookout and three men in a boat called "The Bootleggers"; Thomas Benton's "New England." These subjects are indeed native. But if Mrs. Harriman has rendered an important service to art in her tri-national exhibition (and it is general opinion that she has), her service has been...