Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edward L. Doheny III (whose grandfather-in-law was Oilman Doheny of Teapot Dome fame) was out a $3,000 bracelet-strayed or stolen, she didn't know which. Police looked for a clean, well-lighted bauble prinked with 41 diamonds, 113 pearls...
...unveil a statue of Democrat William Jennings Bryan when Republicans were seized with a sense of esthetics. The statue of the Great Commoner looked "like an abandoned suitcase," critics declared, and was grossly out of proportion to "the powerful, magnificent splendor" of the Capitol's gold-glazed dome. G.O.P. Governor Val Peterson took a middle course. He ruled that the statue could be unveiled Labor Day as scheduled, but might later be moved to a less controversial spot...
Rumours of a radio tower stop Lowell House were laid to rest yesterday when Cecil Roberts of the Maintainance Department said that the workmen were merely repainting and regilding the dome and weather vane...
...scaffolding, which caused the speculations, will be taken down when the job is finished in two or three weeks, he said. The weather vane and the small yellow painted cupola will be gilded while the tower dome will get another coat of blue paint...
Grizzled old desert sheiks, who remembered the brief days of victory, wept as Sayed Abdul Rahman cut the orange ribbon across the tomb's doorway. Inside, a green, red and blue glass dome cast gaudy light on a glass chandelier and handsome Persian rug (the gift of Neighbor Emperor Haile Selassie). Sayed Abdul Rahman contemplated his father's inlaid sandalwood coffin, which he claimed to have found in the ruins of the old tomb last year...