Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...packed with people, more than 50,000, ex- tending far beyond ear reach. Cameramen were hastily making ready their machines on every vantage point. The threatening clouds had rolled away and it was clear and sunny. Ushers began to lead the various parties to their seats. Under the white pavilion, on the main steps, well known figures began to appear. Mrs. Coolidge, Colonel Coolidge, the President and Mr. and Mrs. Dawes joined the group behind the string of amplifiers connected with the largest radio "hookup" ever attempted-an oral connection with 20,000,000 people, it was said...
...John W. Davis put Tennessee behind him and rumbled into Kentucky. At Franklin, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, he saluted throngs. In Louisville, the Horse Show pavilion at the State Fairgrounds was his forum. He was among friends and spoke genially, quietly, saving his fire for stormy Indiana, whither he repaired next day for a third time since the campaign opened. Vincennes, Princeton and Evansville were the stumps selected...
Besides many residences of high merit, Mr. Platt designed a dining and bathing pavilion for Charles M. Schwab at Richmond Beach Park...
Poets Keep on Publishing Books HARMONIUM - Wallace Stevens - Knopf ($2.00) matches its odd, bright cover. The titles of the poems show the mood, Peter Quince at the Clavier, The Comedian as the Letter C, Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion, Colloquy with a Polish Aunt, "princox, citherns, toucans, gasconade." Intellectual gymnastics, the tight-lipped playfulness of a strange imagination, sonatas for the piccolo-much that is merely sterile grotesquery - occasionally individual beauty, unfashionably arrayed but genuine-half-a-dozen or a dozen poems, firm-fibred, original, distinguished, ensuring for Mr. Stevens a small but positive niche in the imaginary Valhalla...
...sugar-gas-transit-charity dispensers of San Francisco, was Alma De Bretteville, great-grand-daughter of a French Marquis, Colonel in Louis XVI's Swiss Hundred. A lover of things French, she conceived and carried out the idea of duplicating in marble the French pavilion at the San Francisco Exposition of 1915, a reproduction by Henri Guillaume, French architect, of the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Paris, which was built in 1786 for the Prince Salm-Salm, from designs by Rousseau (not Jean Jacques). It is a small but charmingly graceful and dignified structure. The city...