Word: replica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the President finally drove up to the White House with his daughter Anna and Louis McHenry Howe he did not return to the comfortable home which he had left. Before his departure he told the country that he had no fear that builders would erect "a replica of the Kremlin" on the White House grounds merely because he had given them authority to make modest alterations in the White House offices during his absence. When he returned there was nothing left standing save three of those offices' outer walls, and during his first night in the White House...
...Pennsylvania. As usual, they let Venzke lead for the first lap. Cunningham passed him first, Bonthron a little farther on. One hundred and fifty yards from the finish, when Cunningham was 15 yd. ahead and gaining slowly, it looked as if last week's race might be a replica of the one at Princeton three weeks ago when Cunningham won by 40 yd. with a new world's record for the mile. But spectators were destined to see a finish none of them is likely to forget...
...last week carpenters had built a small replica of Peiping's great open air Altar of Heaven with its ceremonial steps. Ready, too, was an imperial throne of ebony, carved with dragons and orchids. Tailors embroidered robes of imperial yellow and jewelers had carved a Ju Yee or sceptre of jade. Since meteorologists announced that the temperature was likely to be about 20 below zero the enthronement ceremony was advanced from sunrise to noon. For many hours Henry in his yellow robe must make his obeisance to his illustrious ancestors while mandarins kowtow and the traditional orchestra in mushroom...
...wine glasses, bowls, plates, bottles, candlesticks, vases; a tableful of heavy molded "architectural" glass for cornices, tiles, columns. Prize of the show was a slender glass fountain by Sydney B. Waugh, 1929 Prix de Rome winner. Other exhibits: a pair of glass slippers made to fit Gloria Swanson; a replica of Steuben's 16 by 8 in. glass casket in which, in Santo Domingo City, repose a few handfuls of ashes that were once supposed to be Christopher Columbus...
...unusually luxurious limousine standing in front of Manhattan's luxurious Sherry-Xetherland Hotel fortnight ago attracted the attention of a smart New York Sun reporter. The silver radiator cap, big as a baby's head, was a replica of Ben Hur's chariot. Silver trimmings on the fenders and silver door handles led Newshawk Edmund De Long to peep into the car's interior. Upholstery was of soft green Morocco leather. "On the inside of the doors." De Long wrote in the Sun, "and across the partition separating the chauffeur's compartment is a gold...