Word: dome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commons as he explained just how far Britain could loosen its belt. Only thrice did he pick up the little teacup from its green tray and fortify himself with sips of rum and milk.* Once he drew a laugh as he absently rubbed his high, sun-browned bald dome, announced a reduction in the purchase tax on hair-waving and drying machinery...
...curves in oil and marble sometimes forgot to pay her, and Kiki never cared. Unconcerned, she tramped the streets in a threadbare overcoat and man's hat and some artist's castoff shoes. Later, in fancier finery, Kiki lounged in the wicker chairs at the Cafe du Dome or sang in her Pernod-husky voice ("I could never sing if I was sober") at the two-by-four cabaret called the Jockey Club...
...toasts of Paris." Du Maurier's Trilby died miserably, drugged to the last by Svengali's evil eye. Last week, flabby and 45, her cheeks pasty white and sagging, Kiki shuffled out of the door of La Roquette Prison. Picked up a month ago near the old Dome for peddling narcotics, Kiki was out on bail so that doctors could treat her drug-shattered nerves...
Pedro Leao Velloso was the watchful Brazilian. A lawyer and seasoned diplomat, Dr. Velloso sat silently and glistened; his dark green glasses, the scarflike handkerchief that poured from his breast pocket, the glistening mahogany-hued dome of his bald pate all shone...
Harold Ickes resigned. In a 3,000-word statement he charged that the President's friends "resented keenly the fact. . . I told the truth." Ominously recalling the scandal of Teapot Dome, he stormed: "This kind of political pressure spiritually wrecked the Republican Party in the days of Secretary [Albert] Fall." He warned "of a cloud, now no bigger than a man's hand, that my . experience sees in the sky"- the cloud of political corruption...