The front room had fine high ceilings and three large windows that loomed down pleasantly upon Fifty-second Street. In its appointments it escaped by a safe margin being of any particular period; it escaped stiffness, stuffiness, bareness, and decadence.

前面的房间有漂亮的高天花板和三扇大窗户，它们宜人地隐约可见于五十二街。在任期中，它逃脱了任何特定时期的安全余地；它摆脱了僵硬、沉闷、光秃秃和颓废。