Word: rotundas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallace appeared, brushed and beaming, looking sure of himself; with him John Nance Garner, his little apple-cheeks pink in the cold, his eyebrows like small puffs of Texas cotton. The band broke into Hail to the Chief, and the President walked slowly forward from the shadows of the rotunda, leaning on the arm of Son James resplendent in the Marine Corps's red, gold and blue uniform...
...suit with white piping on his vest pottered out of the U. S. Senate chamber one day last week. With a long white holder and an unlighted cigaret in his hand, he emerged smiling like an imp. Through little knots of Capitol tourists he made his way under the rotunda to a small white door marked "To the Dome." clumped down a flight of steps and along a shining corridor, entered a three-room suite which is the only Senator's office remaining in the Capitol building itself...
...that the committee can start moving out tables and chairs in preparation for the dance, which will begin at 10 o'clock. Much of the decorating will be done in the afternoon, but a large portion of it, such as the placing of a fountain in the rotunda, cannot be started until after supper...
Will Bradley's orchestra will provide the music for the Jubilee, and will play from a stand near the entrance to the rotunda. Dancing will go on in both the large and small dinning halls. The exhibition of the Union Photographic Society will remain on display during the evening in the Lower Common Room...
...balloons, will be thrown open to the class of '43 and their 200 female guests and for one night will take on the appearance of the Rainbow Room. Refreshments will be served in the east end of the dining room, while potted palms and bird baths will transform the rotunda into a tropical garden...