Word: pompeiian
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Despite all the soft comforts, one customer has found dangers: strolling past the taupe-gold-champagne Rotunda Reception Hall toward the Pompeiian Plaza, she became so enthralled by the decor that she tumbled smack into the Pompeiian pool. Fortunately, she had not yet changed into her Pompeiian gown and Pompeiian slippers. But she got antisepticized anyway...
Within is a jumble of objets d'art?an early self-portrait of Goya, a Volk head of Lincoln on its original base, a Rembrandt, a Pompeiian head, a fireplace which once belonged to James Russell Lowell, Gothic stained glass windows. No framed cartoons, even of "Abie," are visible...
...make practical use of the dormant gymnasium fund of $10,000, he sounded interested persons on the matter, and all favored the project. A Boston architect was consulted. Plans were drawn up for a regulation pool to fill the lower part of the Union. It was to be in Pompeiian style, to measure seventy-five by thirty feet, with over fourteen feet bead room; to be ventilated artificially; to have an artesian well, and a filtering system; and to seat five hundred spectators. The estimated cost was $16,000, and only $6,000 remained to be raised, provided the gymnasium...
Under the auspices of the Classical Club Professor M. H. Morgan will lecture at eight o'clock tonight in the Fogg Art Museum on "The House of Vittius; the latest Pompeiian Excavation." The lecture is to be illustrated by lantern slides and will be open to the public...
...main dimensions of the new building are 73 feet by 88 feet. It is three stories high, and is of brick. The entrance is through a large door which leads to a spacious vestibule, the walls of which are of mottled Pompeiian brick. The floor is laid in mosaic tile. A broad, iron staircase leads from this vestibule to the third story...