Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only centaurs but ordinary human beings often stopped in their tracks at the sight of Irish Poet James Stephens. The doe-eyed little (5 ft.) man with the high, fringed dome and the long, lugubrious stage Irishman's face had moved Critic Burton Rascoe to exclaim: "Never have I seen a man ... so easy, free and natural, so untamed by society, so untouched by conventions, so spontaneous, pagan, joyous." Stephens reminded Rascoe of the leprechauns, the gnomelike creatures the poet had written about in The Crock of Gold, along with the god Pan, philosophers, children, wives, cops, fairies...
Under him, the bureau became one of the best in Washington. Besides Ross, it included crusading Paul Y. Anderson (who won the Pulitzer Prize for articles exposing the Teapot Dome scandal), Raymond P. ("Pete") Brandt, now head of the P-D bureau, and Marquis Childs...
...patrolman he and his buddies had shaken down nightclubs and gin mills for allowing them to stay open after hours. Now & then, he sprinkled in a big name or two. At one point he recalled hearing that a wealthy oilman named Sinclair (presumably Harry Sinclair of Teapot Dome notoriety) had lost $800,000 in two nights at the Golden Shores gambling club, and had later settled the debt...
From 537 A.D. until Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453 A.D., anonymous Greek mosaic painters contributed various religious scenes in the Hellenic tradition to the inside walls and dome of the church...
...Chair-Warmer. Here, in the concrete, was the glowering, complex malady known as "The Farm Problem." Seated last week in the middle of it, buried to the top of his egg-bald dome in crop surpluses, statistical mousetraps and political pitchforks, was Charles Franklin Brannan, a plain, earnest, city lawyer from Denver, who is the 14th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.* A sturdy (185 lbs.) six-footer with inquisitive brown eyes, a hard-to-ruffle temperament and a scrubbed look, Charlie Brannan had neither farming experience, pocketfuls of votes nor campaign dollars to commend him when Harry Truman plucked him from...