Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nordica's three husbands brought the unhappiness into her life. First was one Frederick A. Gower who took a balloon flight over the English Channel and never returned. Second was Zoltan Dome, an Hungarian tenor as lazy as he was handsome. Third was George Washington Young, millionaire president of U. S. Mortgage & Trust Co., so lavish in his courtship that once when Nordica was singing on the Pacific Coast and he was in Manhattan he hired a messenger boy to take her an emerald necklace clear across the continent...
Social Manhattan frowned on Nordica's marriage to Young and on the litigation which accompanied her divorce from Dome. In 1913 she decided on a tour of Australia but she was 54 and her voice was worn. On the way to Batavia her steamer was shipwrecked and there she wasted away to 100 lb., died of pneumonia in the spring...
...build first a small chapel, then a bigger one, finally, with $2,000,000, to begin work on a great Oratory of St. Joseph. This building, which will eventually cost some $6,000,000, is planned as a granite and limestone cruciform basilica, topped by a 95-ft. dome. To its completed crypt go from 5,000 to 10,000 people on ordinary days, 25,000 to 50,000 on feast days. Of the cures registered and checked by physicians before and after every health-seeking visit, none is a "first class" miracle involving growth of new bone tissue. Typical...
THINGS TO LIVE FOR-Francis Stuart- Macmillan ($2.50). Disconnected chapters from the life of the mystical young Irish author of Pigeon Irish, The Coloured Dome...
...delighted to have a wholly air-conditioned building to save them from the summer's heat; delighted with the roomy basement offices extending out under the lawn and surrounding a little sunken court with a fountain in its centre; delighted that in place of the beautiful but useless McKim dome over the old waiting room, their palace had got a roomy penthouse where more secretaries and clerks, including those of Mrs. Roosevelt, can do more work more easily...