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...House: four stories, marble, Italian architecture, 30 rooms. A Gobelin tapestry 25 x 10 feet depicts a hunting scene. The marble stairway is lined with heads of caribou, deer, elk, mountain goats, mountain lions killed by?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No. 15 Dupont Circle | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...national Theatre to be erected in Washington there is a vaulted lobby at the end of which is a grand stairway leading to the promenade on each side at the First Balcony level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/27/1927 | See Source »

This promenade is arranged about the Lobby except on the stairway end which is blank. This unpierced wall may, however, be formed in any manner the treatment requires to serve as a memorial to those men and women of the theatrical profession, and there were many of them, who gave their lives for the country, in the Great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/27/1927 | See Source »

...Marine Band played "Hail to the Chief"; President and Mrs. Coolidge descended the state stairway followed by Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, and the Cabinet members with their ladies. In the Blue Room doors were flung open and in marched the diplomats of 53 nations, wearing court uniforms, headed by Baron de Cartier, Belgian Ambassador, dean of the diplomatic corps. It was the first state reception of the season at the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...last week, however, few knew that Mr. Pyle was likewise a dramatist. The scene was the great dining hall of the steamship Paris, ablaze with lights, aglow with chatter of sporting bigwigs. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, the Peter Pan of Princeton, was, of course, toastmaster. Down the majestic stairway, slowly into the room came Vincent Richards, star, "logical" successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Announcement | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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