Word: cupolas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House Plan is in operation. After living for a week in his new quarters in the cupola of the construction shack of Lowell House the Vagabond officially lays claim to the distinction of "first settler", and offers his less informed readers a report on the actual living conditions in one of the new houses...
...bustle of the early dawn this morning the Vagabond completed his moving and found himself installed once more within four walls. His new residence is perhaps not so spacious as his last, but the Vagabond feels that quarters in the cupola of the little construction house in the center of Lowell House are at least strategic...
...Cambridge, Mass., atop the solemn, Georgian bulk of Harvard Hall there is a cupola where, one morning long ago, early risers were astonished to behold a horse & buggy. In another Harvard Hall, banquet room of the Boston Harvard Club, there were assembled, one night last week, some 400 members of the Yale and Harvard Clubs of Boston, the Yalemen guests of the Harvardmen. Each alumni body had brought along its university president. All understood it to be the first meeting of its kind in history...
...roof of apricot-colored tiles. It overlooks Biscayne Bay, is set in the midst of tropical greenery cut by serpentine driveways. On the estate is a shallow goldfish pool bright with water blossoms, a mosaic tiled swimming pool, a putting green and an observatory with a little cupola like those of Mohammedan minarets...
...caboose, not the last coach of the circus. And if he did catch the last coach why did he risk his precious life crawling over the top of the coaches in a vain effort to reach the engineer when it would have been much easier to step into the cupola of the caboose and arouse the train crew, and have them stop the train...