Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more staid of subscribers carped; others acquiesced. Last week, in London, Artist Frank Brangwyn continued with his plans, imperturbed. From a U. S. revue appearing at the London Pavilion, he selected Negro show girls as the models for the panels he is designing for the War memorial of the House of Lords in the Royal Gallery. The sheen of ebony figures will appear on the panel representing the Maltese Islands in the series called the "Pageant of the Empire," which show the various racial types. Carpers were alarmed by suspicions of fierce negroid heads, gleaming black torsos, black limbs...
...Gorgian type of main body is used that is an oblong with round-topped windows on each side, and as both ends, under the gable of the root, a recessed effect with columns on either side of the recess. With this is combined a round Lower, supported upon a pavilion of columns and set in the middle of one of the sides of the oblong rather like the stack of a power plant...
...main body of the tower which rests like a tank on the pavilion, is surmounted a steeple inspired by that of the Park Street Church in Boston. The Park Street steeple has been much and justly admired: but it is difficult to see why it should stand on this tower or why the tower should be so extraordinarily mounted and placed with regard to the body of the church. As already suggested, the plan is probably only tentative. If it isn't it ought to be, in the interest of Harvard's esthetic future...
...Holiness Pope Pius XI last week unveiled "the largest map of the world " Oil paint upon 2,750 sq. ft. of canvas in the pavilion of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith reveals the breadth of missionary zeal...
...Doumergue, President of France, visiting the Decorative Arts Exposition, was suddenly stopped by one of his suite before an elaborate pavilion...