Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comprehensive slow motion pictures were accepted, not one, but many, uncalled fouls would be revealed in every hard-fought game. The scores of every important football game in history would have to be revised. The decision of every hard-fought game would require about as long as the Teapot Dome case. This being the case, it seems to us a little shorts of the fine old Bulldog sportsmanship to broadcast to the world this particular non-called Army foul...
...Berlin, not even in Prussia, but in Saxony, in Leipzig sits the German Supreme Court: das Reichsgericht. Justice is done beneath a mighty dome topped by a big bronze statue of Truth. Through tall casement windows Saxon sunbeams glint upon carved oak. In such a setting presiding Judge Baumgarten (except when fiddling with one of his ears) is a sight awesome as Olympian Jove. Boldly to face the justice down, to use the Supreme Court dome as a demagog's thumping tub, to hurl from dem Reichsgericht a defy which reverberated throughout Europe, such was the feat last week...
Bounce. A certain Marcello Nitrati, Italian tourist, had just scaled St. Peter's dome and jumped off. After bouncing once against the side of the dome he plunged to the roof (308 ft. below), became the first suicide in the newly constituted Papal State (TIME...
...contained, he had a permanent disfigurement which toughened his misanthropy. Love for mankind he never developed, but love for his work never deserted him. At 70 he was finishing the Palazzo Farnese, altering fortifications, making a church of the Baths of Diocletian, designing the Capitoline square, and planning the dome of domes for St. Peter's Cathedral. In 1564 he died, leaving comparatively little sculpture, his few majestic frescoes, a group of sonnets, all works of a lovely strangeness, a married strength and sweetness...
...Pope Pius XI, a surprise gift from hundreds of Catholic Eskimo children. The contents: a large piece of birchbark. Painted on its inner surface was a dog sled carrying nuns and a missionary priest through the main street of Holy Cross Mission, Alaska, towards a primitive rendering of the dome of St. Peter's while a female figure, representing St. Therese, scattered celestial petals from the clouds...