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...Horticultural Society, the offspring of this union, a small, white, pansy-like orchid with a heart of deep maroon, was christened by John B. Lager, its flower godfather. Forty-eight hours earlier in the great library at Hyde Park, while two candles burned on a small improvised altar, Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt, seated in a great chair, had the joy of seeing a dark-haired baby girl, his eldest son's eight-month-old daughter, baptized. Henceforth child & orchid will bear the same name: Kate Roosevelt...
...France, who spoke by radio from Paris, in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty (see p. 27). Said the President, repeating Grover Cleveland's pledge in dedicating the statue: "We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected." Said Herbert Hoover later in Denver: "Two days ago [Mr. Roosevelt] rededicated the Statue of Liberty in New York. She has been the Forgotten Woman...
...greatest value as a careful critical discussion of the paintings and drawings now generally accepted as Gruenewald's. For this splendid artist needs to be introduced to Americans. Few travellers from this country take the trouble to visit Colmar in Alsace for a sight of the Isenheim Altar. Few go to Karlsruhe to look at the "Cruifixion" and the "Christ Bearing the Cross." Unless they have been warned, they are likely to pass by the Basel "Crucifixion", or the Stuppach Madonna, or even the two important works at Munich--"St. Erasmus and St. Mauritius", and "The Mocking of Christ...
...suffering the torments of the martyrs--and this in the years when the Raphaels and Peruginos were turning out the sweet, peaceful solemnity of their religious paintings. The visions of monsters assailing St. Anthony have nothing to do with the Renaissance. Neither have the radiant Resurrection of the Isenheim Altar, of which Stefan George wrote; nor the mystic Incarnation of the Altar, placed in a little Gothic chapel where "lines live and flame and quiver, figures twine and inter-wine, pillars shoot upward, arches swing, towers stretch and strive to heaven...
Like the poor, the prophets and holy men of Dorchester are always with us. That crusader against the red menace. that protector of the young, Mr. Dorgan, gladly offered himself up on the altar of publicity for his cause last spring. Another doughty warrior of Dorchester now appears upon the scene waving a banner emblazoned with the glorious words: "It is perfectly obvious to anyone that the registration and voting in this city has been crooked for years...