Author: Evanell K. Powell Brant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puns and punning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner
Author: Evanell K. Powell Brant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puns and punning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puns and punning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Panic in Paradise
Author: Raymond B. Vickers
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817307233
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Even when lawsuits disclosed the chicanery, state and federal regulators misled the public. Despite the official denials, the public panicked. The ensuing runs caused the banking crash.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817307233
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Even when lawsuits disclosed the chicanery, state and federal regulators misled the public. Despite the official denials, the public panicked. The ensuing runs caused the banking crash.
Mizner's Florida
Author: Donald Walter Curl
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This is the first complete biography of the inimitable society architect Addison Mizner, whose Spanish Revival buildings created a new style of resort architecture for Palm Beach and south Florida during the boom years of the 1920s. By 1925, Mizner ranked as one of the country's most prominent architects, as important in his own time as Richard Morris Hunt and Stanford White had been in theirs. The book's 150 illustrations include plans and historical photographs - many published for the first time - showing Mizner's handling of space, the relation of his houses to the landscape, and the many picturesque buildings that combined the comfort and convenience expected by his clients. Donald W. Curl is Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. The Architectural History Foundation American Monograph Series.
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This is the first complete biography of the inimitable society architect Addison Mizner, whose Spanish Revival buildings created a new style of resort architecture for Palm Beach and south Florida during the boom years of the 1920s. By 1925, Mizner ranked as one of the country's most prominent architects, as important in his own time as Richard Morris Hunt and Stanford White had been in theirs. The book's 150 illustrations include plans and historical photographs - many published for the first time - showing Mizner's handling of space, the relation of his houses to the landscape, and the many picturesque buildings that combined the comfort and convenience expected by his clients. Donald W. Curl is Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. The Architectural History Foundation American Monograph Series.
Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags
Author: Stuart B. McIver
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561641550
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Florida has been the home of many unusual characters throughout the years. Meet Ned Buntline, Laura Riding, Wilson Mizner, Sam Jones, and many others. Storytellers, lawbreakers, movers and shakers, sportsmen, moviemakers, visionaries, and mobsters all left their mark on Florida. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561641550
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Florida has been the home of many unusual characters throughout the years. Meet Ned Buntline, Laura Riding, Wilson Mizner, Sam Jones, and many others. Storytellers, lawbreakers, movers and shakers, sportsmen, moviemakers, visionaries, and mobsters all left their mark on Florida. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
The Treasury of Humorous Quotations
Author: Nicolas Bentley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Fabulous Wilson Mizner
Author: Edward Dean Sullivan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Mizner was a playwright, raconteur, entrepreneur, and swindler. He frequented New York, Hollywood, and Florida. He was known for his witticisms.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Mizner was a playwright, raconteur, entrepreneur, and swindler. He frequented New York, Hollywood, and Florida. He was known for his witticisms.
Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies
Author: Christian Scriver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devotional exercises
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devotional exercises
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Anagrams
Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307816877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A revelatory tale of love gained and lost—from a master of contemporary American fiction. • "An extraordinary, often hilarious novel." —The New York Times Book Review Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs. As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307816877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A revelatory tale of love gained and lost—from a master of contemporary American fiction. • "An extraordinary, often hilarious novel." —The New York Times Book Review Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs. As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love.
Finding the Champion Within
Author: Bruce Jenner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684870371
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
One of the world's greatest athletes provides a plan, useful to anyone, for personal growth. Using the decathlon as a metaphor for development, Jenner offers a powerful success strategy--one that he has molded over a lifetime.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684870371
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
One of the world's greatest athletes provides a plan, useful to anyone, for personal growth. Using the decathlon as a metaphor for development, Jenner offers a powerful success strategy--one that he has molded over a lifetime.
How to Dress for Success
Author: Edith Head
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810921337
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published by Random House, Inc., New York, 1967"--T.p. verso.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810921337
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published by Random House, Inc., New York, 1967"--T.p. verso.