Word: tiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train its guns upon the $2,000,000 Presidential Palace of Carrara marble, decorated by Manhattan's Tiffany Studios. The guns did not fire, but soon Castillo de la Real Fuerza and all other Havana garrisons aimed their guns at the Palace's dome of yellow glazed tile. Subordinate officers told sly, grandfatherly little War Minister General Alberto Herrera that he must tell President Machado to resign. When the War Minister refused he was arrested, forced to promise "on my word of honor as a Cuban, an officer and a gentleman" that he would beard the President...
...Driscoll and by Hugh Paine, caretaker of the dam, thousands of slumbering Denverites had escaped death. Only two were killed, five reported missing. Property damage exceeded $1,000,000, would have been greater but for the city ordinance that requires all Denver houses to be built of stone, brick, tile or concrete...
...woolens, Aristide Maillol has been very particular about his materials. He used to complain violently about every type of drawing paper on the market. Several years ago he chewed a big gob of drawing paper while working on a clay model and finally spat it out on the smooth tile floor. Some hours later he picked it up, discovered that the underside of his paper quid had acquired a beautiful fine grain. Faithful Nephew Caspar Maillol undertook to manufacture drawing paper for his uncle and friends by a like process. It is expensive, not on the public market. The only...
...Despite the growth of Nanking and the commercial supremacy of Shanghai, Peiping still looks like the capital of China. It is one of the tourist centres of the world-more so than ever now that the vast, incredible Forbidden City with its acres of palaces beneath acres of yellow tile roofs has been opened to visitors. Manchuria may go to Japan, Canton and the south may secede, Outer Mongolia may be quietly absorbed by Russia, but so long as the central Nanking government has a semblance of control over Peiping they can claim with justice to be the government...
...Inquisitor tossed this question into the proceedings during the last of the Mayor's two sessions on the stand. Publisher Block, according to testimony brought out at an earlier hearing, had been interested in a Brooklyn concern which planned to sell tile to the city subways. The Mayor affirmed the revelation of his amazing generosity with a shrug of his shoulders, called it a "beneficence," said that he always took his gains home in cash and put them in a safe-"not a vault, not a tin box." Publisher Block's gift, instead of damaging the Mayor, appeared...