Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arcade in Naples that they call the Gallería Umberto Primo. It's a cross between a railroad station and a church. You think you're in a museum till you see the bars and the shops. Once this Gallería had a dome of glass, but the bombings of Naples shattered this skylight, and tinkling glass fell like cruel snow...
Next morning, under the myriad of lights within the huge dome of St. Peter's, the Swiss enjoyed every minute of what they had really come for. Bright green, gold-embroidered bonnets and halo-like veils stood out among the black headdresses of nuns. Hundreds of Swiss eyes watched anxiously to see how the Pope would receive the profusion of gifts they had brought-huge candles with Alpine scenes painted on the sides, turtledoves, canaries, singing birds...
Author Putnam admits that the Paris of the expatriates was no more typical of the city as a whole than Greenwich Village is of the city of New York. For the most part, the U.S. expatriates collected in the few blocks around the Left Bank cafes Dome and Doupole in Montparnasse-"a weird little land crowded with artists, alcoholics, prostitutes, pimps, poseurs, college boys, tourists, society slummers . . . homosexuals, drug addicts, nymphomaniacs . . . 'dukes' and 'countesses...
...slope of the great granite dome of Malindizimu, the Queen found the going too heavy for her smooth-soled shoes. Princess Elizabeth promptly offered the Queen her low-heeled footgear; the Princess continued the ascent in stocking feet (Nylons, size...
...future would be against the background of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. To take a hard look at this smeary oil picture, the Senate committee has called in former Senator Burton K. Wheeler (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a skilled scandal snuffer who first won national attention while investigating Teapot Dome. Wheeler has not yet decided whether a fulldress investigation is warranted. But last week all signs pointed...