Word: semicircular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building will be low and angular; this is nothing new to those who know Mr. Wright's work. The most important and interesting part of any theater, however, is the stage. In this case the stage juts out into the orchestra in a large semicircular form, reminiscent of the Grecian theater. Thus actors and audience are brought into more intimate contact than is possible with the present "picture frame stage...
...opening day, Texas' Tom Connally, dressed in a rumpled linen suit, took the floor to begin the case for the North Atlantic Treaty. With no galleries to play to -in the old semicircular chamber where the Monroe Doctrine was first pronounced 126 years ago-Tom Connally went right to the point...
...illustration of what he called the "Cyclone Look," Dior showed an evening gown that had nearly a score of stiffened folds projected backward, making it look as if the wearer were carrying a huge semicircular balloon on her stern. In his "Winged Line," beruffled evening dresses were boned, wired, lined and otherwise stiffened to flare out as much as two feet in all directions, preventing their wearers from sitting down, dancing within arm's reach of a partner, or standing...
...Fifth Avenue GHQ, the two have offices to match their personalities. Mike Cowles, deliberate, slow-spoken, has a sedate, paneled, 13th-floor office, a neat, clean desk. His wife's, eight floors below, has bright lime-yellow walls, a royal blue rug and a littered blond mahogany semicircular desk. Fleur dresses dramatically, sports an uncut emerald ring as big as a horse chestnut, talks fast and crisply, smokes and likes Scotch & soda. Both she and Mike wear black hornrimmed glasses. In their spare time, Mike plays tennis ("enormously good," says Fleur), while she paints...
...airplane, and he was being shown the emergency escape panels in case the craft had to come down on water. Related Hull: "The fact of several exits reminded me of the old gentleman in Tennessee who kept three cats. A friend, visiting him one day, noticed three large semicircular holes cut in ... the front door. 'What are those for?' he asked. 'To let my cats out,' was the reply. 'But why won't one hole do them?' 'Because,' the old gentleman retorted emphatically, 'when I say Scat! I mean Scat...