Word: tiling
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...Cabinet was all of one sex. When Miss Perkins looked over her own office in the new building she found it satisfactory. Opening a door she stepped happily into an adjoining bathroom with full-length mirrors, frosted window panes, a shower stall with seven needle sprays and pastel-tinted tile. Then with consternation she noted that there was another door to her bathroom. She opened it and found it led into the future office of her Solicitor General, Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. Officially Mr. Wyzanski is her right-hand man, her invaluable aide who accompanies her on many...
...original announcement of the House Dance to be held next Friday, stated explicitly that in order to avoid crowding in the Common Room, there would be installed an amplifying system of the better variety, so that these who enjoy dancing on the tile floors might glide ever the pavements of the Dining Hall...
...Constitution which would take the President of China out of the figurehead class (a Mr. Lin Sen is now President) and give him full powers. The implication was that Generalissimo Chiang will make himself President and move into the brand new $100,000 Chinese "White House" (yellow walls, blue tile roof) at Nanking which puppet President Lin has never ventured to occupy...
...Winthrop men played stellar ball during the first six innings of the tile, going into the last of the seventh with a comfortable lead, but the homer by Peter and errors on the part of the Puritans suddenly threw them out on the short end of the score. Norman Letarie, Winthrop's biggest swatter, chalked up another home run for himself in the seventh...
Like all Chinese "palaces," it was a maze of sprawling, verandahed, one-story buildings built around open courtyards and roofed with tile of imperial yellow. The entrance was two great sheets of plate glass blazing in red with the character "Sho" (Longevity). The floors were marble, the movable partitions elaborately carved open woodwork, broken with old paintings on silk, panels and mirrors. Known as Pi-shu-shan-chwang (mountain lodge for avoiding the heat), it was famed for The Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray...