Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London it smacked at first of important Nazi machinations in the Middle East. Wastrel Abdul Hamid did visit Germany last year. Asserted Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express: "The conspiracy to murder King Ibn Saud was hatched not in the sultry courtyards of Mecca but in the chill, tile-floored galleries of the Wilhelmstrasse. . . . Germany's object was to start a guerrilla war behind Britain's back in Palestine and Egypt." Next day the Daily Express was curtly corrected by a Saudi Arabian official statement in London: "The man [Sherif Abdul Hamid] had no political party behind...
...Conway, N. H. a church bell started an eerie tolling and in North Conway a house caught fire. In Salem, Mass, a rare Japanese tile gargoyle in the Peabody Museum fell and shattered. In Albany, N. Y. a huge Christmas tree in the State Office Building toppled. In Portland, Me. a butterfly came out of its cocoon, flew around. In Chicopee Falls, Mass, a water main cracked. In Central Falls, R. I. instruments and bottles in the glass cases of an operating room rattled while surgeons were operating. In Nashua, N. H. a church's stained-glass windows were...
...Pueblo Indians) Mexico's artists graduated to the only finished stone-carving and temple-building of the Mayas and Toltecs. When, in 1521, the Aztec empire was destroyed by the Spanish Blitzkrieg, Mexico's artists turned from feathered serpents to waxworky saints, from pyramids to tile-walled cathedrals. After the revolution of 1910 had cramped the style of the Church and had given a groping start to socialism, they turned modernistic, swiped an idea here & there from Paris, and started covering the walls of public buildings with pictures of peons and capitalists...
Between roundups, Rancher Williams sticks close to his natty, tile-roofed ranch house, pokes about his green alfalfa fields, hunts a little, and thinks up ideas for Out Our Way. When he has a batch of drawings finished (he has a hard time keeping ahead of his deadline) he ships them off in a swanky Cadillac 40 miles over rutted dirt roads to Prescott, where they are mailed to the NEA syndicate headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio...
...solarium for doctors, a drug-manufacturing department, laundries, a printing shop. Each ward, a complete unit with special treatment rooms, bathrooms, doctor's office, nurses' cage and pantry, contains only twelve beds. The 50 operating rooms and delivery rooms are paved and walled in soft blue tile, contain unique, explosion-proof operating lamps which Dr. D'Aunoy designed. He also planned a pneumatic tube system between operating rooms and pathology department, to bring surgeons quick microscopic reports on tissues while they are operating...