Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearby Plaza de Mayo, bombed a few hours earlier, the men marched into the church. Within minutes, flames were consuming San Ignacio's great cedar altar and its historic, Indian-carved pulpit. At the same time, similar bands of men touched off other important churches. The lofty dome of the Basilica of San Francisco glowed red. Flames danced in the windows of the archbishop's palace next to the Metropolitan Cathedral (which was spared...
...coming in here asking for home-town newspapers. Three years ago, they didn't give a damn. They just grabbed the nearest newspaper and looked at the headlines quick-to see were we in a war again, or maybe had the Commies walked off with the Capitol dome. Now it's important to them to know who's marrying who and who's divorcing who back in the old home town...
Theatrical Master-of-all-Trades Noel Coward sighted Cinemactress Jean (Desirée) Simmons at a cocktail-drenched Hollywood party in his honor, affectionately gave her a platonic squeeze. This week Coward will begin a month's run in a Las Vegas pleasure dome at a reported $40,000 a week (a figure which probably, like many in the Nevada resort, is not entirely real). Entertainer Coward, 55, was "enchanted" by the prospect of bringing British culture to the Wild West. Burbled he of Las Vegas: "It's a combination of a gold rush and a honky-tonk...
Griffes: Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson; Mercury). Gifted U.S. Composer Charles T. Griffes (1884-1920) here gets the first LP of his biggest orchestral effusion. Like his better-known White Peacock (also on this record), it proves him to be the American Delius; the style falls somewhere between French impressionism and German tone poems...
...swing man" by voting independently of either liberal or conservative factions in the pre-Roosevelt court, later shifted to a more conservative position under the New Deal; of a heart attack; at his home near Phoenixville, Pa. Plainspoken, scholarly Owen Roberts won fame as prosecutor in the 1924 Teapot Dome scandal, was named to the high court by Herbert Hoover, eventually became the sole non-Roosevelt appointee. A lifelong Republican and anti-isolationist, he headed the controversial 1942 Pearl Harbor Report board that exonerated the Roosevelt Administration of blame for unpreparedness. after his retirement devoted much of his time...