Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight of London, like St. Paul's, though he wears his dome at the side. He has written verse not equaled since Praed. He has graved his name into English law. He wanted only a Sullivan and a bad temper to beat Gilbert at his own game. He can navigate the Thames and work out his position from the stars, without one glance at the bank. But his real forte is for friendship. He is a remarkably good friend, even to his enemies-excepting always himself...
...cleanup job that Harry Truman promised for his malodorous federal house loomed as one of Augean scope when Judge Thomas Murphy backed away from it last December. The President seemed to have in mind a formidable probe and prosecution, a Democratic version of the Republicans' famed Teapot Dome inquiry. Last week the job turned out to be far less heroic in proportions. It called for a special assistant to the Attorney General, with powers only to investigate, leaving prosecution up to Attorney General Howard McGrath. After reportedly being refused by two other eminent lawyers (the late Robert Patterson...
Shortly after Evensong one evening last week, a man in an overcoat climbed to the lectern of St. Paul's Cathedral and pointed a pistol toward the great dome. No one made a move to stop him. Two shots, shattering the gloom of the church, made a noise like an artillery barrage booming across nave and transept. For twelve seconds the reverberations echoed...
Truman refused to be specific about what continued drastic action he would take. A reporter asked if there would be a special committee, like the Roberts-Pomerene Commission which investigated the Teapot Dome scandals. No, said Truman, thumping his chest with a forefinger, if there is going to be anything, it will be his own, a Truman original...
...smoke-darkened silhouettes. Using a mixed technique of tempera with oil glazes on heavy canvas, Stuempfig gradually built a spacious river town veiled in a warm and somehow sad early morning dimness. The neo-classical composition recalls Corot's Italian landscapes, and its distant, county-courthouse dome might almost be mistaken for St. Peter's in Rome. "Pennsylvania towns," Stuempfig insists, "do have an Italian look...