Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion that the Society of Jesus*in the palmiest days of its history never held a nation in so firm a grasp as the 'political parsons' of certain Protestant sects hold the United States today. Whenever I pass that large building in Washington, which overlooks the Capitol and houses of the offices of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, I feel like turning anarchist and throwing a bomb in the cellar...
...midwinter day in 1900, three men entered the gate in front of Kentucky's capitol at Frankfort and started walking toward the edifice. Halfway through the grounds stands a fountain, the overflow of which had only partly frozen on the path. As the three men turned aside to avoid the sludge, five rifle shots were fired with terrible deliberation and enormous echoes from a lower window of the capitol. One of the men near the fountain collapsed, mortally wounded...
...reporter named Cobb, who had been watching the three men approach, dashed out of the capitol and across the frozen lawn. He knew it was Big News. The dying man was William Goebel, who had just successfully contested in the legislature the election of his Republican opponent for Governor of Kentucky...
...people-sightseers who wander through the State Capitol at Albany, N. Y., are apparently no bother at all to Nominee Smith in his conduct of his state's business. He even permits them to stop, look and listen in the executive chamber while he holds hearings as New York's chief magistrate...
...Boss O'Connell. If not molested, "The Gut" had promised to restrain itself from too-overt alcohol smugglings and rowdy boozings. Following the political tirades of Theodore Roosevelt the younger that a slimy trail of vice and corruption had crawled "to the very steps of the State Capitol," Boss O'Connell and his friends had been "making character" for the sake of Governor Smith...