Champney

All on us know Mis 'Champney's a-breakin'; they do say she's hed a shock, leastwise I heerd so, an 'Aileen'll look out for A No. 1.

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

-- highflyers, emigrants, Dagos and Polacks -- Come ter think, Mis 'Champney's got one on 'em now.

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

"Champney," she spoke half hesitatingly; she did not find it easy to question the man before her as she used to question the youth of twenty-one, "would you mind telling me if there ever was any truth in the rumor that somehow got afloat over here three years ago that you were going to marry Ruth Van Ostend?

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

I heerd Aileen hed ben goin 'up thar purty reg'lar lately for French an' sich; guess Mis 'Champney's done 'bout the right thing by her, eh, Tave? "

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

In that spirit, I pass onto you the sad story of Seattle's incomplete Episcopalian cathedral, and what it might have looked like, excerpted from Jeffrey T. Tilman's Arthur Brown: Progressive Classicist: The project began in 1922, when the diocese [of Olympia] hired parishioner Champney to draw up an image of a proposed cathedral, to be located at Tenth and Galer streets in Seattle.

Arthur Brown and St. Mark's, Seattle 2009

Brown immediately saw the scheme was not constructible, but he worked with Champney to derive a plan that was structurally possible.

Arthur Brown and St. Mark's, Seattle 2009

Stephenson denied that he was resigning over allegations that he accepted £12,000 worth of hospitality from Champney's health spa, focusing instead on his decision not to inform the prime minister that the Met had employed Coulson's former deputy Neil Wallis as a strategic adviser.

Sir Paul Stephenson turns on David Cameron 2011

Bakewell, Brown and Champney proposed a steel structure that was to be faced with stone, braced with concrete infill walls, and vaulted with concrete shells.

Arthur Brown and St. Mark's, Seattle 2009

Brown was Champney's closest professional colleague, the most prominent architect working on the Pacific Coast, and the one person with whom Champney might be able to work.

Arthur Brown and St. Mark's, Seattle 2009

"Champney -- O Champney, what has he done to you!" she moaned in hopeless terror; "what shall I do --"

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller