Word: fountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ports of the world. The Chinese, the Irish, the Italians, Russians and men of other tongues had made it cosmopolitan. But San Francisco remained a western American city. There, where enthusiastic miners once tossed gold nuggets at Actress Lotta Crabtree-who presented the town with a memorial fountain ("Lotta's Fountain")-the old atmosphere of violence, love of opulence, independence and friendliness has thinned. But it has never been dissipated...
...Russian workmen had to rush temporary restorations to house some of the Big Three staffs. The white stone palace where President Roosevelt stayed was built in 1911 for the last of the Romanovs. But the smaller of the estate's two palaces, the gardens themselves and the famed Fountain of the Nymph-smuggled from Pompeii in 1834 -are pretty much as they were when Mark Twain saw them, clustered in the shadow of the great Ai-Dagh (Holy Mount...
...What happened in the park-and again in the court of the palace where the fountain was, and the flowers . . . these were rich-they must never be trusted to treacherous paper-memory will do-I guess no one in the world who could appreciate a joke would be likely to forget them...
...Winthrop's so-called "backside") is inaccessible to bombardment from the earth. To blast these regions I have designed a cannon combining the better features of a trench mortar and a slow curve. Consisting of a curved barrel mounted on a base equipped with weather bureau, barracks, soda fountain and bond booth, its aim and fire power is controlled by the formula given on the enclosed drawing...
...soda-water fountain...