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Then, pattering eagerly ahead, he led them to a tiny door, opened it, revealed a dark ascending stair. "This stairway leads," said the Abbe Loubiere, "to the dome. There the view is truly superb. Come!" Last week the Abbe gathered newspapermen about him on the steps of the Sacre Coeur, confided eagerly...
Banquet. A formal luncheon at the British Foreign Office loomed finally, to divert their Spanish Majesties from too light hearted enjoyment. Though Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and his wife received all other guests at the head of the crimson carpeted Foreign Office stairway, they descended to the quadrangle as the purr of King Alfonso's limousine was heard. His Majesty gave to Lady Chamberlain his arm. Her Majesty was escorted by lank, bemonacled Sir Austen. British Royalty, having previously entertained their Spanish Majesties at Buckingham was not present. All dined in the great room in which was signed...
...with the grotesque faces of conventionalized art at its four corners presents one entirely new feature in Maya architecture. This is a round cupola or small tower, which rises from the roof of the temple proper, itself set upon a pyramidal mound of five terraces ascended by a wide stairway. The cupola enhances the effect of height and grandeur...
...whoop of joy which Dr. Spinden let out when he found this cupola was good to hear. We had been clearing brush and trees a foot in diamter from the terraces and stairway for several hours. At the risk of a dangerous cave-in he climbed to the top of the temple, where the brush and cactus were so thick that he had hacked for fifteen or twenty minutes before he could discern the outline of the cupoia. I believe his elation did much to convince the Indians helping as that we were not hunting for gold as their kind...
...time Professor Elton is talking on the Memoirs and Letters of the time of George II upstairs in Harvard 6. One might easily be tempted to divide the hour between the two rooms if this did not entail losing a large part of it on a steep and creaky stairway...