Word: stonework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then ambulance sirens sounded. A babble of scared talk sprang up, and bystanders began to eye the damage. At first the damage looked ruinous. Tons of brick and rubble had cascaded down off old" buildings near Seattle's Pioneer Square, smashing parked automobiles. Great chunks of stonework had been flipped off the state capitol buildings at Olympia. Store fronts and brickwork in dozens of towns had collapsed, a radio tower had snapped, and hundreds of buildings showed cracks in walls and floors...
Passers-by saw girls screaming at top-floor windows; then blasts of fire blotted them from sight. Moments later some of the same figures could be seen again, burned to blackened skeletons. The heat melted stonework to limy slag. In all, the destruction lasted just 16 minutes. Firemen counted 41 dead, none positively identifiable, in the worst fire disaster in Dominion history. Two days later, when New Zealand put out flags to celebrate the royal wedding, Christchurch flags flew at halfmast...
...many other shifts called for by Shaw's complicated script are handled by Holabird's production crew. Where directions call for medieval castle walls, heavy curtains will be hung from specially constructed platforms to give the impression of stonework...
...balanced spires, soaring 515 feet into the air, still stood. Mainly, the bombers had succeeded in sparing it. But at a corner of the central window over the main door there was a jagged hole; there were others in the roof. Thousands of small chips, knocked from the carved stonework, were scattered about. The Germans had removed the windows and main altar, bricked up the statues. The choir loft was in ruins, the confessionals smashed and heaps of rubble covered the floors...