Word: dome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Atlee Pomerene, 73, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Democratic Senator from Ohio, prosecutor, with Owen Josephus Roberts, of Teapot Dome oil lease cases under Calvin Coolidge, board chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under Herbert Hoover; of pneumonia; in Cleveland...
...girl; Kiki, black-haired, impish French painters' model; Nina Hamnett, English painter and expert on sailors' chanteys; Jimmy Charters, ruddy-faced and unfailingly genial barman. The four were not friends, were in fact rather rivals, each ruling a separate coterie-the ladies at their tables at the Dome, Rotonde or Select, Jimmy at whatever bar he happened to be tending at the moment...
...friend of the late great Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad. He was frequently consulted as an authority on literary forgeries. Intimates smiled to each other about his harmless little habit of snitching lumps of sugar from cafe tables and hiding them away in a tin. At 74, dome-browed Thomas James Wise was considered by his knowledgeable countrymen as very nearly a great...
...space that Muralist Marsh has long itched to fill is the 30-year-old dome of Manhattan's Custom House, as fine a public expanse of plaster as any frescoer could itch for. He prepared a series of eight sketches, showing scenes of a liner (Queen Mary) entering New York Harbor, taking the pilot aboard, warping into her pier, discharging freight...
Unlike some other popular servants, Harry will not have to retire. He can hang around and make himself at home the rest of his life because he is "just as much a part of this institution as is the dome over this building." Since Harry's chief functions are guarding the committee's door and running errands, observers believed last week that Harry would continue to sit by the door, let his assistant do the leg work. If that young buck (to be chosen by Harry) serves as wisely & well for the next 63 years...