Word: pagodas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...architecture. Here buildings were so designed by able Manhattanite Henry Killam Murphy as to harmonize with the country and the civilization of which they are a part. There are Forbes, Wheeler, Gamble, and Finley Dormitories, but despite their Anglo-Saxon names these buildings have the blue-tiled pagoda roofs, white walls, red lacquer columns, carved porches, sweeping curves and broken lines appropriate to their environment. A typical many-tiered, pagoda-topped tower overlooks an artificial lake, and a pair of gargoyle-like lions guard the multicolored, richly ornamented Alumni gate...
...lecturer raises his pointer to a stereopticon view of Chinese buildings. In a crisp, piping voice he exclaims: "And I said to him, as one Occidental to one Oriental, 'May I visit your pagoda?' And he said to me, as one Oriental to one Occidental, 'You may.' " Three hundred undergraduate eyes closely follow the pictures, 300 ears the discourse. The pagoda is visited, described, its structural and esthetic significance intelligibly explained...
Pearl Maker. At the Sesquicentennial Exposition there is a $350,000 "pearl pagoda," put up to advertise the artificially cultivated pearls of Kokichi Mikimoto, 68, multimillionaire. He employs hundreds of men to insert a tiny particle of foreign matter within the shells of individual pearl oysters. Such a foreign body irritates the oyster to cover the particle with pearl material, a process that somewhat resembles the formation of a felon around a sliver in a finger. Kokichi Mikimoto employs 500 Japanese girls and many a man to go diving for the pearl oysters, hazardous occupation. Last week he debarked...
...Hall of the Americas, Secretary Mellon, Senator Bruce and Mrs. Bruce, in a demi-toilet of black chiffon and lace over a white chiffon slip faced with pagoda blue, received the guests, President and Mrs. Coolidge first. The entire Cabinet, the entire Supreme Court, a few Senators and Representatives, many diplomats, the royalty from Sweden, many friends, were in line. Mrs. Harvey Arthur Lee, the bride's mother, however, was not present. Mrs. Dawes was present, but the Vice President could not leave the Senate...
...last touch of dressing is to choose a cap from the basket Josephine produces. M. France holds them out on his fist, one by one-papal bonnets, velvet skull-pieces, pagoda-caps, purple choir-wafers, mandarin hats. He fits on one in red-current Jouy cloth. The day begins...