Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charged - but never proved in court - that Bonfils took $250,000 from Oilman Harry F. Sinclair to keep quiet about the Teapot Dome scandal, but such hush money would have been mere pin money to him. Before he died in 1933 (nine years after Tammen's death), he boasted that his enterprises, which ranged from mining schemes to a burlesque house, had brought him $60 million...
Died. Carlton Cole Magee, 73, Albuquerque Journal editor who blew the top off Teapot Dome with editorial dynamite, and in a quieter moment invented the parking meter; in Oklahoma City. Jailroaded (for libel) by political casualties of the explosion, Firebrand Magee was promptly pardoned, got in an impromptu fist-and-gunfight with the judge who sent him up, accidentally killed a bystander, but beat the homicide...
Life with Baby (MARCH OF TIME) attempts to explain to parents why Baby sometimes does not seem to behave like a civilized human being. Based largely on pictures shot through a so-called "one-way-vision dome" at Yale University's Clinic of Child Development (conducted by famed Dr. Arnold Gesell and staff), it shows actual examples of Baby's coming to grips with the world: at four weeks barely able to move the head, at four months gaining control of the fingers, at four years able to stick out the tongue at whoever happens to be handy...
...Times's letters column Lieut. Colonel P. Youngman Carter of d'Arcy House, Tolleshunt d'Arcy, near Maldon, Essex, announced a horrifying discovery (in an old wardrobe): a bowler hat whose brim turned down. Wrote he: "The hat possesses a classic (or dome-of-St. Paul's) crown, five inches high but unwaisted, but the brim, which is a full two and a half inches wide, is perfectly flat save for an inverted gutter at the extreme edge.... I am wondering if it is an example of individual taste...
...string of bulls in the arenas of his native Aragon before he settled down to painting. He also killed a number of men in drunken street brawls, was once found near-dead himself, with a long dagger in his back. For a whim, he recklessly scaled the dizzy dome of St. Peter's in Rome, and carved his initials on the lantern that had been left there by Michelangelo. Soon after, he was imprisoned by the Inquisition for breaking into a convent and trying to kidnap...