Word: waterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Penney home is a spacious Italian Renaissance villa of white limestone with a low roof of apricot-colored tiles. It overlooks Biscayne Bay, is set in the midst of tropical greenery cut by serpentine driveways. On the estate is a shallow goldfish pool bright with water blossoms, a mosaic tiled swimming pool, a putting green and an observatory with a little cupola like those of Mohammedan minarets...
...Passed a resolution directing the Federal Water Power Commission to send to the Senate any protests against the lease of Cumberland Falls, Ky., to the public utility interests of Chicago's Samuel Insull; likewise protests against permitting Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West to participate as a member of the Commission in a consideration of this or other leases...
...Interior. It was recalled that Secretary West was once attorney to Samuel Insull, once held stock in the Insull interests (TIME, Dec. 17). This personal participation in power transactions had been urged against Mr. West's fitness to be Secretary of the Interior, to serve on the Water Power Commission...
First off, the doughty brigand Bacha Sakao, called "The Water Carrier," stormed Kabul and forced King Amanullah to abdicate in favor of his brother Inayatullah (TIME, Jan. 21). Secondly, the bandits continued their storming until Second-King-of-the-Week Inayatullah abdicated, hefted his 280 pounds into an airplane, flew away. (At this point the whereabouts of Amanullah were unknown and his assassination rumored.) Thirdly, the "Water Carrier" Bacha Sakao occupied the arg or citadel of Kabul and proclaimed himself "Padishah Habibullah...
...landing dock and general water front development on the Business School bank of the Charles River is under consideration by the University, according to information gathered yesterday. Students in the School of Landscape Architecture have been drawing up plans for the development, which will be in the form of a dock for boats coming up the river, surrounded by a stone embankment with lights and a flag. Several of the designs incorporated also a built-up embankment on the Memorial Driver side, between the Weeks and Lars Anderson Bridges...