Word: skylighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear sounds: We squeeze through the skylight and drop onto the floor. A cup of that most pernicious of all drinks... Tea ... which, according to Italian newspapers will be the downfall of the British yet.... And so to bed. Yours truly, E.V. French, Graduate School of Design...
...paunchy little man stood quietly behind the marble rostrum, uneasy in his unaccustomed formal clothes, his shrewd, warm eyes downcast, his bald head shining dully in the soft glow from the vast skylight. Inches from his right hand was the gavel, the symbol of the authority he would now wield as Speaker of the House, until death or defeat of the Democrats. Sam Rayburn, 58, of Bonham, Tex., bachelor, shorthorn breeder, and for seven years a moderator of the New Deal, was waiting to speak his piece...
...often listened to Joe and that he enjoyed him very much. I am sorry to say that I didn't like the way the Strad boys played the Haydn. They rushed it like Toscanini playing the blues and I expected. Uncle Joe Haydn to pop through the skylight...