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Word: stairway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reception line forms in the basement and crawls up a red-carpeted stairway to the main floor (see cut), where it turns left into the foyer. Vast mirrors double the crowd. Light sprays from a huge bronze lantern overhead and from countless bronze standards about the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...made out of pictures even better than out of words, is the vehicle of Director Jacques Feyder. He makes as exciting as a melodrama a scene of two children ostracizing another child from a game. Other shots: the feet of farmers under a coffin fumbling on a wooden stairway; a boy who has been punished raving at the closed door of his room; a hay-harvest, and, later, an avalanche in the Swiss Alps; the stepmother saving the boy, Jean, from a mountain river where at last he has tried to drown himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Many questioning patrons of Widener. Library will be made glad by the remarks quoted in this issue of the CRIMSON in regard to the mural decorations of the main stairway. Few Harvard men are able to avoid at least a weekly head-on exposure of these paintings and many of them are daily made to speculate upon the meaning concealed in the curiously flat expanse of paint that overlooks the turn of the stair. The more energetic and intellectually curious of its observers have no doubt many times been driven to enrolment in courses in the fine arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTER OR MASTER-PIECE | 12/4/1928 | See Source »

...referring specially to the mural on the left hand side of the stairway the same article goes on to say, "The group is a powerful and unifled statement of emotion and action, and in design builds up most effectively, giving the feeling in its upward trend that the soldier will win his fight and attain the height of glory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sargent Mural in Widener is Storm Center of Recent Criticism by Pach | 12/4/1928 | See Source »

...real estate claims, six landlord and tenant cases and four will cases. Other miscellaneous cases were a suit against a former tenant who smeared creolin all over the wall of her apartment when forced to leave, and a suit by a woman who fell in a badly lighted stairway, for whom the Legal Aid Bureau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/21/1928 | See Source »

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