Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night to read about the Hall-Mills murder trial; Senator Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada forgot for the moment that he was being sued for a personal note of $6,232.50; many another lawmaker laid down the cares of domestic life and strode up the steps of the Capitol. In the Senate chamber the gavel of Vice President Dawes smote his desk; in the House the gavel of Speaker Nicholas Longworth did likewise. The 69th Congress had begun its last and its "lame duck" session...
Builder-Architect Graham, under Designing Architect Daniel H. Burnham, built the Chicago World's Fair, when he was 20. He built that early century wonder, the Flatiron Building, and the new $31,000,000 Equitable Building in Manhattan; the Union Station on Capitol Hill at Washington, the Union Trust Building of Cleveland. He built all of Marshall Field's stores in Chicago, the Field Museum, the Railway Exchange, the Continental & Commercial Bank. He built the Selfridge stores in London. He put up the first Chicago skyscraper, for Gumman Wrigley, and the Straus skyscraper. During...
...friends of Dr. Henry Suzzallo, whom I had ousted as president of the University of Washington, I recently commenced publication of a little magazine called Hartley's Weekly. But I still am not without troubles. The other day, when walking past a high school building near the capitol, I heard a downy-cheeked, 14-year-old lad yell: 'There goes old Hartley-he's going to get it in the neck when the recall comes.' I stopped instantly to administer a thoroughgoing reprimand. Other youths gathered around me. Said I: 'If that's what...
...without it being known to the rank and file. ... I wrote to D. C. Stephenson regarding a position in the Department of Justice. He wrote to me to go to Washington and there interview Senator Watson. He said his letter would be a sufficient introduction. I went to the capitol and met Watson in his office...
Harry Houdini, prestidigitator, handcuff king, foe of charlatan spiritists: "As I was about to perform my 'Chinese water-cell trick'* on the stage of the Capitol Theatre at Albany, N. Y., faulty stage tackle let the ponderous wood-and-iron stock fall upon my left foot, crushing it. Though my supple feet and ankles constitute great assets to me in my escapes from fetters, piano boxes, safes and other receptacles, I risked swelling and infection, stayed on the stage, did other tricks. Afterwards one of my staff said something about a 'jinx,' whereat I rebuked...