The two secretaries often clashed with Mary Lincoln, who resorted to various stratagems to get the dilapidated White House restored without depleting Lincoln's salary, which had to cover entertainment and other expenses.
I think that would be really fun to do: get some bunker or dilapidated warehouse and turn it into this factory for physical monsters.
"I use a cane, and I'm all dilapidated, but I get around," she said with a chortle.
Ms. Savage used a broken door to get into the dilapidated house.
We hear every day about all the things wrong with our education system: the students who are not prepared for a college education and need remediation when they get there; the dilapidated school buildings and antiquated technology and textbooks; the overcrowded classrooms where students can't get adequate attention from their instructors.
The complexities of guiding a global business that employs thousands certainly dwarf those required in visiting bingo parlors and getting legislation approved for some dilapidated bridge.
One minute, the excellent Knowles is behaving like a small-town club singer, holding the cabaret stage on Colin Richmond's dilapidated 1970s-themed set and getting boozily overfamiliar with her surviving daughter, Electra.
Here, among the dust of dilapidated, once-elegant rooms, we get a feel for the rise, fall and reinvention of fortunes that knit together so much of the local history.
Likewise Mr. Dranoff, a Philadelphia developer who has made a name for himself turning dilapidated factory buildings into desirable housing, got wind of Camden's potential a couple of years ago, during a groundbreaking for one of his Philadelphia projects.
Customers are waiting to hear whether liquidators for the Vivat Trust, which had rescued neglected and dilapidated listed buildings, will be able to get their money back.
