Word: ionic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come up the hard way from nothing to a plantation and owning slaves, but he never forgot the COMMON MAN. Sitting on his plantation porch of an evening, he would say: "I still love the COMMON MAN," and, with a jet of tobacco juice slanchwise between the Ionic columns, would drown a doodlebug at five yards. So they called him the SAGE of The Hermitage (his plantation...
Thirty feet above, behind the Ionic columns of the south portico, the small circle of great and near great began to form: Supreme Court justices, Cabinet members, close Presidential advisers, and their wives. Promptly at noon, at the time prescribed by law, the short and simple fourth-term inauguration began. The Marine Band, thin and brassy in the cold winter air, burst into Hail to the Chief...
...mystery. Passers-by reported strange doings. Around the vast, Versailles-inspired mansion a high steel fence went up. By day armed guards patrolled the herbaceous borders. By night great floodlights on the parapets sometimes flashed on to light up Whitemarsh Hall's massive, two-story limestone facade and Ionic columns...
Denver's Ionic-columned post office was pictured on the first floor; the Denver Children's Hospital, all function and windows, on the second. Manhattan's cavernous Pennsylvania Station, based on the Baths of Caracalla, was a contrast to the sheer, severe, glass-&-marble front of Manhattan's Museum of Modern...