Word: porticoed
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...filmed in a churchly murk illumined with twinkling candles and rare shafts of sunlight. Arresting shots: nuns wielding pickaxes, laying bricks, pecking typewriters, operating a printing press; penitents sewing under the watchful eyes of Magdalens; a single nun prostrating herself face down; nuns swirling to & fro before a classic portico; the great scenes of investiture in which the nuns are given wreaths of orange blossoms to signify their marriage to the Son of God and the Mag-dalens crowned with thorns as a symbol that their need for penance is not over...
...Montgomery St., San Francisco, stands the pillared portico of Crocker First National Bank, a rich, conservative institution that is something of a landmark in West Coast banking. It was founded as a private banking house in 1883 by the late Charles Crocker, one of the quadrumvirate that built Southern Pacific RR.* He wanted to leave his son a bank. Son William Henry Crocker began as a clerk, was made president ten years later. Meantime the bank had taken out a national charter, and for the next 40 years prospered exceedingly on the best West Coast accounts. In 1926 it gained...
...expected to have an attendance of about 15,000 persons, most of whom will be Alumni. A theatre will be constructed in the quadrangle between the Memorial Church, University Hall, Widener Library, and Sever Hall with the platform, to seat 700 persons, as an extension of the south portico of the Church...
Emerging at 11:15 p. m. under the twinkling lamp of the north portico, Senator Robinson furnished a summary for public consumption: "It is expected a conference agreement will be reached on the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill and also on the TVAmendments. It is also expected conference agreements will be reached on the Alcohol Control Bill, the Gold Suits Bill and, of course, the Tax Bill. I think there is a fair chance of reaching an agreement on the Utility Bill. If the Guffey Coal Bill passes the House it will be taken up in the Senate...
...than they could themselves. Through the years the six brothers faithfully executed such work by other sculptors as Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue in Manhattan, Daniel Chester French's great Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., and Robert Aitken's pediment for the west portico of the brand new Supreme Court Building in Washington, into which Sculptor Aitken put the faces of Chief Justice Hughes, William Howard Taft, John Marshall (as a boy), Architect Cass Gilbert and himself. The brothers' business boomed. The red brick house grew to a 20-room catacomb of high...