Word: domes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months the Senate Committee on Public Lands has been delving in and out of the question of the leasing of Government oil reserves, especially that reserve in Wyoming generally known as Teapot Dome. Under the regime of Albert B. Fall as Secretary of the Interior that reserve was leased to the Sinclair Oil interests. There was much conflicting technical testimony about the wisdom of that lease?and some smoke was raised. It was not until last week, when an apparent contradiction in Mr. Fall's declarations was discovered, that the Senate burst into the full flame of oratory...
...Secretary of the Navy the sluice gates were apparently opened to unrestrained of the nation's resources by private interests ... The Teapot Dome scandal has its direct parallel in The Ballinger scandal which shook the Taft Administration to its foundation...
...ever noticed how Mrs. Wilson always managed to draw into the background a little and so give the impression that the President is perceptibly taller, which, of course, is not the case. . . . She was proud to be Mrs. Woodrow Wilson but she didn't want to wear the dome of the Capitol for a tiara...
Secretary Weeks is often described as being in appearance typical of the War Department. Not dashing, his is the warfare of defense. " His big and shining dome looks like a fortress," says Mark Sullivan, famed Washington observer...
...spirited gentlemen were devoted to a form of idol worship, but the tribute which they laid at the altar of love is nothing compared to the tributes which present followers of the sport lay before all manner of altars, including that of the Knock-out Punch, Good Looks, the Dome-run Swat, and of multifarious others. For years Valentine's idle heroine worship has been the only religion of a young "louyere and a lusty bachelor", but now the "irrepresible vitality of youth" does not let him rest content until he has gone far afield in search of new Molochs...