Word: vane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the exception of a wind vane which will be six feet tall, the spire of the New Memorial Chapel has reached its greatest height with the erection of the pipe spike, raised to position Saturday. The spire already rises higher than any other building on the Cambridge horizon, surpassing the battlements of Memorial Hall by five feet...
When shrewd old James Eli Watson, Republican leader of the Senate, who knows well his President's antipathy to direct relief, made this declaration last week it became finally clear that the Senate weather-vane had been blasted half way round the compass by the cold wind of Want. To relieve or not to relieve was no longer the question. It was now, as far as the Senate was concerned, how to relieve...
Senator La Follette eyed the chamber coldly and remarked that unless something was done pretty quickly "there would be some empty seats in the next Senate." It was about this time that the weather-vane abruptly whirred about. Aware that final say on the matter would be up to a Demo-cratic House, the Senate's Republican majority sat by and let Democratic Senators fight it out among themselves...
...brick, as is the rest of the building, tapers sharply towards the top, where the material to be used is wood and darker stone or slate. A belfry in the tower will contain the large bell now used in Harvard Hall; the spire will be topped with a weather vane...
...Theatre with a week of Aïda in 1917. At Cleveland he planned to give three Aïdas. Sandwiched in between were three "prize packages" from La Gioconda, Carmen, Die Meistersinger, The Bartered Bride and Cavalleria Rusticana. Director Golterman gathered a goodly company of principals: Soprano Alida Vane (La Scala); Soprano Anne Roselle (Metropolitan) ; Contraltos Coe Glade and Constance Eberhart (Chicago); Tenor Paul Althouse (Metropolitan); Pasquale Amato, oldtime Metropolitan Baritone trying for a comeback; Contralto Dreda Aves (Metropolitan) for whom a horticulturist in her hometown of Norwalk, Ohio, has named a giant yellow snapdragon...