Word: skylighting
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Next impediment was the ceiling, an umbrellalike structure peculiar to buildings which house cycloramas. This is hung so that natural light from a skylight is diffused over the painting. Because the outer edge of the umbrella hid parts of the painting from the camera, a roofing company was hired to raise the umbrella. ½ With floor leveled and ceiling raised, there remained the most challenging obstruction of all, a large steel pole standing in the center of the building-and this was immovable...
...smiled a British stationmaster's smile. "Never mind," he said, "we've always been able to handle the crowds when Mr. Churchill arrives." Next day a harried police sergeant pulled bobbies off traffic details outside the station. Inside, full-throated singing echoed under Waterloo's dingy skylight, and a surging mass of 2,000 Londoners hoisted children to shoulders, waved Bibles, and clambered up on anything handy for a look at a tall, grinning American with wavy blond hair. "My!" exclaimed one dazed young girl. "You'd think it was the Queen...
...stopped again and another boat came alongside. On the twelfth day, the engines started again but there was no sound of scurry on the deck. Captain Van Delft shouted. There was no answer. He shouted again; no answer. At last, the prisoners were able to pry open the cabin skylight...
What, cried his relieved and astounded captors, was he doing there? He regarded them condescendingly. Stealing bologna-what else? How? Well, just like he always did. His two pals, who were 12 and 13, had lowered him through the skylight, waited until he passed out some sausage and $19 from the till, and then had started hauling him back up to the roof. But the rope had broken, and they...
...been in & out of libel suits with Pearson himself. Said Pegler of his longtime foe: "That lying blackguard is my man, just as Harold Ickes was in his time. Santa Claus brought him to me. Pearson is a liar and a rogue and I will belt him through the skylight as a service to my country and my honorable profession of journalism...