Word: tiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Helen Lee Eames Doherty, Mrs. Doherty's daughter by her first marriage. For the past few months they have stopped at the Mayflower Hotel, in the ballroom of which the debut was held. Decorations: plants, smilax, poinsettias. Along one side of the room stretched a double tier of boxes where sat Vice President Curtis and Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, Secretary of War & Mrs. Patrick Hurley, Papal Marquis George MacDonald. Also present: The Ministers of Switzerland...
...friends: The common people, including labor unions, Gee-geets, from the bayous, cajans from the prairie parishes, hill billies from the northern tier...
...cell tier high above them cowered one James Edward Spiers, sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for robbing and knocking senseless two London cashiers. In a few minutes, as part of his official sentence he would be taken downstairs, strapped to the wooden triangle. His heart would be tested by the hospital orderly, and in the presence of the assembled J. P.'s he would receive 15 stinging, blood-raising strokes from the inch-thick lash. If as almost invariably happens, he should faint during the flagellation, the orderly was there to stop the beatings, apply restoratives until the prisoner resumed...
...realize that every week, almost every day, some Russian church is being turned into a school, day nursery, workers' dormitory, theatre, factory or a granary-as in the case of the once glorious House of God at Petrovsky, now rapidly filling with grain which will obliterate its lower tier of angels and finally its higher tier of adoring saints...
Novelist (The Brought on House), essayist (The American Mind), biographer (Walt Whitman, Whit tier), he is a sparkling ingredient of Boston's erudite Tavern Club. There, in the little Colonial clubhouse hiding in a courtyard behind the Touraine Hotel, he converts fellow members to the Americanisms and poetics of Walt Whitman. With Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland he attends the club's dinners, carrying lighted taper in hand, singing "Wreathe the bowl with flowers of soul." and wearing a bright-hued vest with evening dress. To recognize the decade in which a member was admitted, each Tavern Clubman...