Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy for two years, the Jorgensens moved to Yosemite Valley, built and furnished a home and studio entirely with their own hands, lived there for eleven years while bearded Chris Jorgensen, a capable, conservative, never exciting painter, covered acres of canvas with views of Yosemite Falls, the Half Dome, El Capitan and the rest of the valley's wonders. The Jorgensens became fast friends of the valley's best-known inhabitant, bearded Naturalist John Muir. In 1903 when Theodore Roosevelt visited the valley he outraged the inhabitants by turning down an elaborate reception to eat flap jacks over...
...headliner in last week's exhibition. Other interesting Dalis exhibited included a drawing, fine as an Italian master's, of a nude woman with a body made of half-open bureau drawers, and a painting of a group of African natives squatting before a dome-shaped...
...President's democratic manners, when in spite of a heavy mist rapidly turning to rain, Franklin Roosevelt asked to have the top of their car lowered the better to see and be seen. "Comme c'est joli!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt, indicating the rounded dome of Sugar Loaf Mountain...
Younger than these, but equally famous, are tentative sketches of University Hall prepared in 1815 by Charles Bulfinch, the famous New England architect, and firmly rejected by the college. Bulfinch originally desired that the central building be topped with a massive gold dome; when this was turned down he was willing to compromise on a large cupola. The building, as finally constructed, had a plain roof, and is still in use today for the university offices...
When the nomination flash came, Topeka drowned out the radio. On the green State House dome, 32 floodlights flashed; whistles, bells and bombs went off and 15,000 Kansans marched on the Executive Mansion...