Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...1920s, when U.S. prosperity was at its crest, the lives of the young Americans who had transplanted themselves to Paris had three fixed points-the Dome, the Select, the Rotonde. To these world-famed cafés, at some time or other, came all American exiles: Ernest Hemingway, Elliot Paul, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, Robert Coates...
...rich, ill-famed Elk Hills oil reserves has raised the hair of Congress for the past fortnight. Many a Congressman, suddenly made aware of the contract which Navy Secretary Frank Knox signed last November with Standard Oil of California to pump oil from Elk Hills, mumbled of Teapot Dome. By last week, two House committees, Naval Affairs and Public Lands, were probing the contract, which was abrogated after the Justice Department found it "illegal and invalid." They had failed to uncover any skulduggery...
...turret I knew it was a bad hit when blood flecked my glass dome. When I could leave my gun for a moment I went down and pulled Steve back from the instruments, where his weight was making the pilot's job even tougher. I lashed him upright with a piece of chute harness...
...Park Hotel apartment, Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan sat sunk in an easy chair with a biography of George Washington in his lap. Piled beside him were other biographies: lives of Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt. The Senator's broad dome nodded drowsily. His cigar...
...London, as a full director, MacDonald made the documentary Men of the Lightship, turned out a dozen or so successful and forgettable potboilers, filmed the blitz fires of London from the dome of St. Paul's. His shyness once drew from King Vidor an indirect compliment: "That guy would have been a top Hollywood director but he just didn't know how to blow his own horn." Said MacDonald last fortnight, to a preview group of film and pressmen: "These combat scenes can be done in Hollywood and you can do them very nicely, without loss of life...