Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once past the barrier, the life of an Immortal is less taxing. It consists largely in collecting an annual stipend of 60,000 francs ($171) and showing up every Thursday in the Académie chamber beneath the great dome of the Institut de France, there to pursue in quiet deliberation tasks ordained by Richelieu 320 years ago. Chief of these tasks is that of "keeping the French language elegant" by constant revision of an official dictionary. It is slow work. The Immortals, though their average age is 73, are in no hurry. The last revised edition of their dictionary...
...obsolete for modern research. But is is useful for demonstrations at Observatory open houses and Astronomy I classes. Two other smaller telescopes of seven-and-half and nine inches complement the Garden Street equipment. A brick administration and office building stands in contrast to the weather-worn observatory dome...
Williams cites a civil court case which came as an aftermath to the Teapot Dome prosecutions. Asked the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals: "Why is the plea of self-incrimination-one not resorted to by honest men-the refuge of [Albert B.] Fall's son-in-law, Everhart? . . . Men with honest motives and purposes do not remain silent when their honor is assailed ... Is a court compelled to close its eyes to these circumstances...
...contract offer of about $3,000,000 for his TV services. Then, he walked off the Maine location where he was to star in the movie retread of the musical Carousel. His excuse: production complications would have barred him from keeping a singing date in a Las Vegas pleasure dome next week. In Rome, meanwhile, one of Frankie's most voluptuous girl friends tolled a bell for him. Asked if romance had bloomed between her and Sinatra, touring Swedish Cinemactress Anita Ekberg cuddled her puny poodle and cooed coolly: "My only love...
...that's as far as it goes." Less than a month after the birth of her second child, Rhett (TIME, July 18), Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel cut a lissome figure in Bermuda, where she was gathering strength for an October stint in a Las Vegas pleasure dome. Asked if the Nevada jaunt augurs a nightclub career, Singer Munsel piff-poofed: "No! Las Vegas will mean only a onetime excursion into another field so that I can get some of the innate ham out of my system...