Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...super-suppressive measures & decrees for which they needed an excuse. What excuse could be better than the colossal act of arson which had just sent a $1,500,000 fire roaring through the Reichstag Building (TIME, March 6) gutting completely the brown oak Reichstag Chamber and ruining its great dome of gilded copper and glass...
...Court. Organized Labor is still grateful to him for his efforts to exclude unions from the anti-trust laws He led the fight that ended only when Michigan's wealthy Truman Newberry resigned from the Senate seat he was accused of buying. His relentless investigation of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases finally put Albert Bacon Fall behind bars. He presided over the 103 ballots cast by warring Democrats in Madison Square Garden in 1924, presided again last June at Chicago. After the oil investigation had made him a headliner, Washington's Daisy Harriman took...
Starting in four places at once, flames soon swept up to the great square gilded cupola of the Reichstag, as famous through Germany as is the dome of the Capitol in Washington among U. S. citizens. Soon the cupola was a glowing hodge-podge of incandescent girders. Every fire engine in Berlin was called out before the blaze was under control. Whatever the national election result this Sunday, it will be a long time before the Reichstag Deputies have a proper place...
...this seems like a cynical reaction toward the work of a writer who has been highly praised, it is a reaction not unmixed with perplexity. There are in fact two possible comments on "The Colored Dome," and the position of its author in Irish literature, but the choice between them depends on certain information which is not usually contained in the cover jacket blurb. One would like to know whether this book was written, as it was published, after its author's recent success. "Pigeon Irsh," or whether it is an early work issued on the strength of the previous...
...baldly as that, the story of "The Colored Dome" sounds sufficiently empty, and the false, forced stylization of the author's prose does not much improve it. If this book is in reality an early experiment of Mr. Stuart, on e can only let it go at that, with the wish that it had not been published. But if it is not, if it really is a legitimate specimen of the contemporary Anglo Irish novel, then one can only regret it as a symptom of the distortion of a singularly original tradition of style, for a long time...