Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to its comic strips and editorials, the Chicago Tribune publishes on Sunday, a rotogravure section. Last Sunday, a photograph appeared therein of five people smiling at the cameraman through the glare of a midday sun from a piazza of the Westchester Biltmore Country Club of Rye, N. Y. The Tribune printed four names, from left to right, MacDonald Smith, Miss Maureen Orcutt, Miss Glenna Collett, Walter Hagen. Now behind this foursome of renowned golfers, on a step that made him clearly visible above their heads, stood a gentlemen. His well-brushed hair glistened in the sunlight. He wore...
Standing alone, en face an entire square, fronted by a great piazza, opulent, spacious, its auditorium seven tiered, its broad stairways of scintillant marble, the Teatro Colon easily outranks, surpasses all other South American opera centers. Its seating capacity is 3500- It has been spoken of by Burton Holmes, famed traveler, loquacious lecturer, as "the best appointed theater I ever inspected." Commenced in 1889, completed in 1908, it has teemed ever since with the most consistently well dressed public in the world. To those not in evening dress-the embellished portal is Cerrado, Chiuso, Ferme, Locked...
...circumstances to deliberate the Belgian debt matter (see CABINET) at Plymouth with Senator Smoot and Secretary Mellon, the President determined to do so in privacy. Early in the morning he and Mrs. Coolidge slipped downstairs and tacked up bed sheets in such a way as to completely screen the piazza. Later in the day, when the conference took place, the Chief Executive was able to loll in the Gloucester hammock, shielded by the sheets from the curious and the sun. Before Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot quitted their sturdy porch chairs the irreducible terms to be granted Belgium had been...
...entering the White House," discovered that the camera was of German make. Crowding at a respectful distance about the President and his wife, they recorded with precision that Mrs. Coolidge took two pictures of the Chief Executive with his hat on, another with his hat off, others near the piazza, near the barn door, near the flower garden. Mrs. Coolidge, having exhausted her first roll of film, tried unsuccessfully to unload the unfamiliar German magazine. The President, appealed to, was unable to aid her. He looked about him, spied one "Dick" Sears, Boston cinema cameraman, standing among the pressmen. Catching...
...through the crowd shaking hands, and climbed a 40-ft. wooden observation tower, issuing a warning for not too many people to follow him lest it collapse. ¶ On returning to White Court, Mr. Coolidge found Secretary of State Kellogg and Assistant Secretary Grew waiting for him on the piazza, where they had been sitting for an hour and a quarter. At once, all three fell to a two and a half hour conference on the state of Chinese affairs (see CHINA...