Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denver's flat plain a little sand hill stands up, slopes away to the east. On the edge of the sand hill is a park called the Civic Centre. Long have its buildings been symbols of Denver pride, the weathered State Capitol looking down on a U. S. Mint, a Public Library, an open air Greek Theatre. Last week Denver pride looked to a new and climactic building in the Civic Centre. Facing the Capitol was a fine new white granite City & County Building. It had been abuilding for three years and now its bronze doors (world's largest) were...
Youngest, highest (the Capitol is exactly one mile above sea level), most isolated of U. S. cities, Denver is much like many U. S. small towns. It is full of maples, poplars and elms. The people are placid, brisk, nearly all white-collar workers. The proportion of Rotarians, Kiwanians and life insurance salesmen is said to be higher than anywhere else in the world. It is full of retired invalids who bought Cities Service around 55 (now around 4). There are few factories, little smoke. The clear, dry, rarefied air is equable during the day, cool at night. Denverites claim...
...rows of neat cottages set in flower beds. They have their fun at three municipal golf courses, lakes in the city parks, 26 mountain parks owned by Denver, amusement parks (Elitch Gardens, Lakeside). Well-to-do Denverites live east of the Civic Centre on the slightly raised extension of Capitol Hill. They spend their weekends at the Cherry Hills or Denver Country Club or on estates in the mountains. In the summer stock companies play at Elitch Gardens. Rich and poor shop at the big drygoods store of Daniels & Fisher which has a high tower like Venice's Campanile...
...brick, stone or stucco. Politically, the city runs itself. City and county governments are one. The State legislature cannot enact laws affecting the city of Denver. In view of this independence, Denverites hold it fitting that their Civic Centre is now dominated, not by the oldtime gingerbread Capitol, but by the coronet City & County Building, one of the notable public buildings of the country...
...specify 1) that Ezekiel had a beard, 2) that he complied with the Lord's command, 3) whether he stayed cleanshaven or let another beard grow. When Sculptor Lee Lawrie designed the eight figures for the base of the tower of the new $10,000,000 State Capitol at Lincoln, Neb. he gave his Ezekiel a beard. Last week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless Ezekiel would be news in art. Michelangelo gave Ezekiel a round bush of a beard. Gustav Dore gave him a waist-long mare's tail beard.- But beard critics said that the shaving...