Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which half the time was lost in fire clouds, and from midnight till dawn H.E. bombs and incendiaries fell all over the City. ... In a little time great tawny clouds of smoke, rolling in a sumptuous Baroque exuberance, had hidden the river completely and there we were on the dome, a Classical island in a more than Romantic Inferno. It was far and away the most astonishing spectacle I have ever seen...
...Church of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, whose "columns, arches, spandrils and dome follow each other with the logic of a Euclidian theorem." Wren's great transept is buried in wreckage, and there is a jagged rip in the resetted dome...
...broom-wielding mood, San Franciscans last week swept out the 13-year regime of bald, bland, bumbling Mayor Angelo J. Rossi. Newly installed under the City Hall dome was a newcomer to politics, but an old face to San Franciscans: genial Shipowner Roger Dearborn Lapham...
...till the viceregal flag broke out over the palace dome was the public aware that Field Marshal Lord Wavell had mounted the golden throne. Within jasper-columned Durbar Hall, he had taken the three great oaths: 1) the oath of allegiance to King-Emperor George VI; 2) the oath as Governor-General of British India; 3) the oath of Viceroy representing the Crown to the autonomous Indian States. In that nine-minute ceremony, he had also attained a sumptuous $10,000,000 palace; a job paying in salary and expenses about $280,000 a year; the top appointive post...
...Behind the Rising Sun" are such old favorites as Tom Neal and "Margo." The acting is second only to the plot in gruesomeness. In fact, Warner Brothers' pleasure dome is filled to the brim with bleeding people and murderous Orientals. Also the maiden with the dulcimar hints that maybe we'd better concentrate on the terrible menace of Japan...