Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Karl Cortlandt Schuyler, 56, Denver oilman and lawyer, U. S. Senator from Colorado during the last short-term session of Congress, onetime attorney for Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive Teapot Dome witness; of injuries suffered July 17 when he was struck by an automobile in Manhattan's Central Park; in a Manhattan hospital. Although he had a broken pelvis and internal injuries, he tried to refuse hospitalization after the accident, gave a fictitious name. No one suspected his identity until he disclosed it few days before his death in order to summon his wife...
...inch refractin telescope was installed in the bid dome. This telescope was then the largest one in the world, and with it a number of important discoveries were made. At this time, the staff at the observatory numbered about twelve people...
...lighthouse keeper at Fastnet, Ire land, tells visitors that waves often go over the dome of his light, 150 ft. above the level of the frothy ocean. Whether this is true or not, ocean yachtsmen know that the 720-mi. race of the Royal Ocean Racing Club of England, from Cowes to Lonely Light at Fastnet and back again, is the most dangerous in the world. Fog, strong summer winds, the churning currents of the English Channel, make it far more risky than crossing the Atlantic, where at least yachts do not run the chance of going aground...
...summer resort. Last week Washington's quasi-tropical sun, blazing down upon the Capitol, did its best to drain the vitality of all men who went about their business there. And perspiration stood upon the white fringed brow-as round and far more sunburned than the Capitol dome- of Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher. The venerable Senator might have been spared that ordeal. He might have returned to his constituents and sat with proper refreshment under the palm trees where the Atlantic laps on Florida's coral strand. His age, 74, entitled him to that surcease. Forty years...
...Yorkers with catholic tastes in music who call at the Mayfair Yacht Club after the opera, Dwight Fiske has a peculiarly disdainful opus called "The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Kahn," in which Manhattan's most aristocratic esthetes are languidly identified with fish and weeds...