Word: porticoed
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...west end will be a portico, with four pillars. The entrance which will be in daily use is located on the south side, and east of the tower, near Sever Hall. Outside the Memorial room located under the tower, will be a second portico, also with four pillars...
...Right there ... on that spot." Captain Charles Russell Train, the President's naval aide, directed Signor Grandi where to stand on the White House portico to be photographed. Clicking his heels obediently, the Foreign Minister repeated fearfully: "On the spot...
When coats were stowed under seats, house lights extinguished, the audience was shown the exterior of a large New England home, a portico of deathly paleness only partially masking the building's sepulchral grey face. Here dwell the Mannons. With swift, sure strokes a long story is told...
...crowd of newshawks and photographers jammed the White House portico. . Secretary Mellon rolled up in his all-aluminum limousine, obligingly doffed a neat bowler to cameramen. Tousled Senator Borah barged through without giving anyone a chance to take his picture. Senator Watson of Indiana, always hearty with newsmen, arrived 20 min. early "to persuade the President to change his mind and give out an official statement at the conclusion of this conference." Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills came early to do the same...
...scientific saint. His care for the sick pigeons among the flocks roosting on the facade of the Public Library is possibly less well-known than it deserves to be. For this purpose he makes frequent trips up Fifth Avenue in all kinds of weather. All crannies about the portico are carefully peered into. Among some of the loiterers in the entranceway it is known that a helpless bird carried to Dr. Tesla will bring 75?. It was Tesla who insisted that the water in the fountains should be kept running, in order to provide drinking water and bathing facilities...