Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Have It" . . . Let's have it up here. The Capitol Theatre at Regina, Sask., is the place...
...practical politicians who nest in the U. S. Capitol feel beyond their depth in the economic theories of the New Deal, but the ancient game of trading votes is something near & dear to their hearts. Last week the unofficial but altogether real business of choosing a new Speaker of the House to succeed the late Henry T. Rainey gave them a chance fairly to wallow in their favorite pastime...
...Capitol's Statuary Hall, one of Florida's two immortal sons is Dr. John Gorrie . . ." [TIME, Dec. 3]?wrong again. He is her only son there. Surprised recently at the sight of a gentleman roped to a plank being dragged head first down the Capitol steps, I found him to be the bronze edition of Florida's other son, General E. Kirby Smith, C. S. A., who now stands with several other sons in the Hall of Columns one floor below. Under a Congressional resolution, mainly because the great weight of almost 100 statues was considered unsafe, the Hall...
...event I have in mind. It was on a winter day back in 1908. Late in the afternoon I crossed Pennsylvania Avenue at Twelfth Street. Not only was the air crisp, but a gusty wind was swirling a sudden downpour of snow. Up the avenue from the Capitol came a huge dray drawn by six white Percherons?an unusually large hitch even for those horse days. Reaching the sidewalk I turned to give a second glance and then burst into uproarious laughter. . . . Greenough's George Washington had appeared through the haze of snow, and towering there ten feet high, naked...
...article headed "Undressed Father" in your issue of Nov. 19 reminds me that during the period when Greenough's statue of Washington was displayed on the Capitol plaza, many years ago a friend of mine bestowed on it the title "Washington Begging for His Clothes...