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Owing to the growth of the collections and consequent need of more space, as well as to insure safety from fire, the entire building was taken down and rebuilt during the years 1909 to 1915. To secure maximum safety from fire, all woodwork was avoided, even the furniture being chiefly of steel. Since then very little change has been made in the external equipment...
...Good offices resemble those of any orosperous corporation−walnut furniture and woodwork, glass partitions, trim stenographers, pictures of the company's products−Hoover , Curtis, Coolidge, Dawes, McKinley, Taft, Roosevelt, Mrs. Hoover, Mrs. Coolidge, James William Good. ... As in most G. O. P. offices this year, there is no picture of Product Harding. ... A telegraph instrument chatters with nervous importance down the hall. There are private wires, telephone as well as telegraph, to both Washington and New York. . . . Throngs of people, some important, some trying to look important, "confer" in standing groups of two, three, four. , . . Throngs...
...continuous splash of water played over woodwork invincibly varnished with Valspar. The hiss of Fyre-Freez extinguishing apparatus attracted knots of the curious. Small motion picture advertising machines explained to all who stood and watched the swift capacities of the various craft in water. A Chrysler marine engine artfully sliced in various vitals, backed with mirrors, turned slowly to show all who cared to gaze the working mysteries of its interior...
...lady gained everyone's attention, in another two seconds, however, by whisking an automatic pistol from her magazine and firing two peremptory shots at Judge Johnson. The courtroom banged with noise. Splinters flew from the woodwork and a blackboard behind Judge Johnson, whose reflexes made him huddle down into his chair so suddenly that the next moment he tumbled down the bench step, though as yet unhurt...
...robbery and a will to violence. Madly they raced along with the swaying train, their horses' hoofs beating a drum rumble on the arid land. Half a hundred shots screamed through the air and clattered against the sides of the cars, some of them piercing the woodwork and windows. But all in vain; booty was denied them...