Word: cupolas
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...portrayed as a gentleman, he informed the startled John Neagle, but as a workingman. Yet the canvas must be splendid. It must show him lifesize, laboring honestly at his forge. And in the background must be seen the accursed jail from which providence had rescued him, its cupola topped by a weather vane of crossed keys...
...Bellboys last week launched an organization to perpetuate the ringing of the Lowell House Russian bells, located in the cupola 128 steps above F entry...
There are no electrical controls which could be operated from a warm roow below. As the epileptic Russian had insisted, the ringer must stand among his bells and communicate with them directly by chains, regardless of the Cambridge weather or the wind, in the open cupola...
...Washington, where his boxerlike countenance has become as much a part of the scenery as the Capitol cupola, Jenkins rumbled revealingly: "I walked out of the caucus room a little while ago, signed autographs for 30 minutes and was assured by quite a substantial group that they are interested in my continuing public service to this country as a Senator. If I had been bitten by the political bug and really desired to enter politics and quit private life, I should say the messages and communications I have received would be most encouraging." Translated freely from the Jenkinsese, this meant...
...bomb sent the whole railway station right up into the air, its golden cupola sailing over the trees. Another wrecked St. Catherine's Church. Watching from )behind the barbed wire of the concentration camp, 509 felt a sudden soaring of .he spirit. He crawled toward the camp barrack, determined to stay alive...