Word: dome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waiting. Rooms for Tourists was a literal portrait of a house in Provincetown near where he spends his summers. He had parked in front of the house evening after evening, making sketches by the dome light in his car. "Mrs. Hopper thought I should let the landlady know what I was doing out there," he says, "but I didn't want to intrude...
...banker reaping triumphs in the arts: all leading another life, plying another trade from what they chose. . . . To look at the man is but to court deception. We shall see the trunk from which he draws his nourishment; but he himself is above and abroad in the green dome of foliage, hummed through by winds and nested in by nightingales...
...guarding the wall said that none had visited the wall since trouble broke out. When we crossed the Old City to the First Station of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa, crowds of Moslems were coming out from Friday prayers at an Arab holy place, the Mosque of the Dome of the Rock (often miscalled the Mosque of Omar). They all glanced sharply at me, but hurried on as they spotted my two constables...
Yosemite National Park heads the list of most frequented California ski re-Dome stems the five-mile Bishop Creek run, five shorter trails, and an excellent slope downhill run descending 700 feet in little over a half mile. Badger Pass sports a ski life and three rope tows...
Among the historic heads were those of Wilson, F.D.R., Madame Chiang Kaishek, and Gandhi. ("What a dome," recalls Davidson, rubbing his stubby hands, "what a dome that Gandhi had!") The writers included Conrad, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, G. B. Shaw, D. H. Lawrence (whose thin, bearded face Davidson had made indomitable as a plow), Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis, and 1947 Nobel Prizewinner André Gide, looking like a Roman Senator in marble. Helen Keller was portrayed with her thinking hands upraised. Charlie Chaplin's vain, subtle face bowed in a corner. Einstein's uncombed locks stood forever...