Word: rotundas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith expanded on the advantages of the Union over the alternative sites such as Mom Hall and the Indoor Athletic Building. "In addition to its striking decor," he said, "there are hopes for opening the rotunda for moonlight dancing...
...hotel drew a wide and wealthy following. General Phil Sheridan lived there, delighted by the splendor of its huge Corinthian rotunda, Italian marble staircase, ornate sparkling chandeliers and a barbershop floor inlaid with silver dollars. Potter Palmer was almost as proud of his House as he was of his wife-of whom he once said fondly: "There she stands, with $200,000 [in jewels] on her." Only once did his hotel fail him. The Infanta Eulalia of Spain cut short a visit with Mrs. Palmer, then the queen of Chicago society, because she was "the wife of an innkeeper...
President Truman admits to liking The Missouri Waltz, sometimes picks it out on the piano at parties. But he is just as likely to come up with something else of the same dreamy kind, like the almost forgotten Black Hawk Waltz which he played in the rotunda of Washington's State Capitol (TIME, July...
...night, just before the legislature adjourned, Organist Raboin pushed his little organ out to the Capitol's echoing rotunda. He sat down, idly began playing The Lost Chord. After a few notes he stopped, awed. The Capitol dome, fourth highest in the world, had amplified the organ notes to rolling musical thunder. Raboin experimented. He discovered that by sounding different notes on a low pedal he could create sympathetic vibrations in the rotunda of the Capitol. The effect was terrifying. The sound rose to an eerie roar. It rattled the windows, shook doors, threatened to bring down...
...hell," agreed alumni spokesman Robert Bobbitt. On the Texas campus, 6,000 irate students promptly cut classes, shouldered banners proclaiming NO CLASSES TILL RAINEY; RATS AND REGENTS LEAVE A SINKING SHIP. Dark-clad and solemn, they marched in a parade twelve blocks long to plant in the Capitol rotunda a crepe-draped coffin labeled "Academic Freedom...