Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night, just before the legislature adjourned, Organist Raboin pushed his little organ out to the Capitol's echoing rotunda. He sat down, idly began playing The Lost Chord. After a few notes he stopped, awed. The Capitol dome, fourth highest in the world, had amplified the organ notes to rolling musical thunder. Raboin experimented. He discovered that by sounding different notes on a low pedal he could create sympathetic vibrations in the rotunda of the Capitol. The effect was terrifying. The sound rose to an eerie roar. It rattled the windows, shook doors, threatened to bring down...
...Bovard, or to the present trio of top men: cocky, trigger-tempered Ralph Coghlan, editorial-page chief; moose-tall, desk-pounding Managing Editor Benjamin Harrison Reese; Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick. They were, indeed, all on the team that carried through the P-D's most successful crusades: the Teapot Dome exposure, the impeachment of Federal Judge English, the Union Electric Co. slush-fund scandal, the 1936 registration frauds. But Pulitzer has backed them, ignoring the protests of his country-club friends...
Across snow-covered Boston, at the window of her office in the Statler Building, stood Bette Davidson, 23, secretary. As she looked out over Boston Common and the grey dome of the venerable State House, she said to herself: "This damned war!" Bette, too, had met her man at Harvard. She rushed to San Diego to marry him, but his orders were changed unexpectedly, and he sailed a bachelor. Now, fingering the diamond solitaire on her third finger, Bette said: "We have our house all planned. It's to be sort of brick and stone Tudor, with four bedrooms...
John Collier became executive secretary of the American Indian Defense Association in 1923 and promptly tackled Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, who was pushing hard for legislation to make the Indians Christians and also to open all of their lands to squatters. Fall's laws never passed, and Collier hoped for better times under President Herbert Hoover. But in John Collier's bitter summary, "Hoover didn't give a damn about the Indians either." New Deal for Redskins. By the time the New Deal had come to Washington, Collier was the No.11...
...give me a home near the Capitol dome, With a yard where little children can play; Just one room or two, any old thing will do, Oh, we can't find a pla-ace to stay...