Word: exterior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a turret as a weather vane. A gigantic black cat arches his cast stone back on the top of a sugar-stick minaret. A trained seal on a barber's pole is balancing a whirling ball on the tip of his nose. Up the balustrade of the exterior staircase stalks a procession of pink elephants, rhinoceroses. The interior is even stranger, with carved witches and fairies, gnomes and children, a giant metal plum pudding, glass-eyed electric spiders that slither up and down on copper webs. To curdle young blood one room has a reproduction of the cauldron...
...though the temptation was for him to interfere with the U. S. delegation, to take what diplomats call "a strong public position," President Hoover continued his patient hands-off policy. Even to his closest friends he said little of what he thought of the London Parley, preserved a cheerful exterior...
...entrants have been working for the past three weeks on a set of plans for a suburban apartment house. They are to be for both the interior, exterior, and surroundings, of this building. Imaginary specifications from which to work have been sent to the competitors...