Word: mall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd on the Mall in Washington got a demonstration of defense equipment from the top: OCDirector James M. Landis, who crouched behind a protective shield, played a stream of water on what might have been an incendiary...
...partitions, a bed, bureau, curtained cupboard, with a common washroom down the hall, with showers and toilets and 20 tin basins and 20 tooth-mugs in a row. This recollection looked good to the President. Said he: Why not build such dormitories smack on Washington's beautiful Mall, a 13-block-long stretch of greensward in the heart of town. Charge the girls, say, 50 cents...
Modern Design (Sammy Kaye; Victor). The celebrated boo-eeps of Pall Mall's radio plug. Listeners to the record are supposed to join in with their own boo-eeps, as Sammy Kaye's audiences...
...Roosevelt Administration has kept undeviatingly to the Mellon-sponsored plan. By 1936 L'Enfant's Mall was finished, though the Major's Gallic eyes would have popped at the huge neo-Grecian temples battlementing its northern length. Business houses, even churches near certain Federal areas now conform to the plan...
Since the late Andrew Mellon's new National Gallery of Art opened its bronze doors on Washington's Constitution Mall (TIME, March 24), many a critical connoisseur has looked Philanthropist Mellon's gigantic gift straight in the pink marble mouth. Architects have grumbled that the National Gallery is as massively old-fashioned as Grant's Tomb. Artists complained that the gallery ought to have made some provision for accepting contemporary art. Connoisseurs sniffed that its collection is sadly deficient in French...