Word: section
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Murray Hill" is a satire upon the people who live in the Beacon Hill section of New York. The young heroine, who has been scrupulously reared by three maiden aunts still living in the Mauve Decade, is brought face to face with the modern world by the advent of her cousin from Chicago. To gain the aura of respectibility necessary to pass the Victorian fastnesses of the ancestral mansion, he is forced to change places with a deputy assistant mortician, and put the finishing touches on the cremation of an elderly and unwept female relative. He not only completely changes...
...visitor approaches the new building through the great gate on Memorial Drive, the tower, and the central building which it surmounts, will face him. In this section of the House are located the large and small common rooms, flanking the dining hall. A terrace confronts the visitor as he approaches the dining hall. Mounting the steps to the terrace and passing through the dining hall he will come to the serving rooms. These serving rooms are similar to those in Lowell House...
...visitor's left as he enters the gate is another three-story section, joining a five-story section which turns the corner of the Drive and runs along Boylston Street, meeting the central building at the corner nearest Smith Balls. The library is located on the second floor of the section at the corner of Boylston Street and Memorial Drive...
Today's issue of the Harkness Hoot included, in addition to the eight-page essay, a pictorial section of eight more pages. If continued the attack on the Harkness gift which is making possible the inauguration of the House Plan in New Haven...
When he was surgeon general of the orthopedic section of the American Expeditionary Forces' medical service, he noted a strange coincidence. Many a shell-broken soldier lay unattended in the fields until his lacerations were alive with maggots. Every one should have died of blood poisoning. But, remarkably, many recovered quickly...