Word: dome
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Father Henry C. Wallace, a solid, competent editor and a good Secretary of Agriculture (he helped blow the lid off the Teapot Dome scandal), would test the talents of a Boswell. It is Grandfather (Uncle Henry) Wallace who steals the show. First a rebellious Presbyterian minister, later a farmer and outspoken farm-paper editor, Uncle Henry passed on his name but none of his sharp wit and little of his peppery common sense and talent for writing...
Died. Colonel Robert Wright Stewart, 80, major in the Rough Riders, onetime board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, who was ousted by John D. Rockefeller Jr. after his acquittal of charges of contempt and perjury in the Teapot Dome investigation; in Miami Beach...
...time the men a squatting under the Boston dome started to realize the true function of the educational facilities at Harvard. President Eliot's opulent days, which Mr. Scully smugly uses as a measure of the University today, are gone and forgotten. Today there are few profits. The Massachusetts Legislature, instead of sniping at the roots of established institutions, might well mend their own educational fences...
Unlike outdoorish Winslow Homer (see above), Rouault has always looked inward, to paint the medieval hells and heavens exploding within the high dome of his skull. Rouault was born in violence when a shell blasted his mother out of bed during the bombardment of Paris in 1871. At 14 he went to work in a stained-glass factory, where he earned a dollar a week and developed his unique inner climate-as sharp and glowing, to judge by his art, as glass...
During his three terms he ruled autocratically, fought the New Deal, and brought Georgia education to a low estate with his witch hunts in schools and colleges. His rallying cry was "white supremacy." This week as his body lay in state under the state capitol dome, there stood nearby a huge floral wreath with the inscription "K.K.K...