Word: athenaeum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...propose to ask the Government to supply the Prince with a tank in which he can drive pellmell through the streets and so destroy all automobiles, bakers' carts, the officers' casino, the academy, the athenaeum, the university, and all state and private institutions, and kill every traffic policeman who tries to stop...
...Edwin, 60, designed the Government House in Delhi (India), many memorials, is an eclectic, fastidious craftsman. Anglican Sir Giles, 49, is an ecclesiastical specialist who loves the mossy, shattered abbeys and cloisters of England. In days to come, as they sit in the quiet recesses of London's Athenaeum Club, they may chat about their cathedrals, exchanging theories and compliments. But as their respective shrines rise on the banks of the River Mersey, they cannot help but command the eyes of England as esthetic competitors...
...this the extent of Biddle Sr.'s enterprises. When a mere youth, he conducted an exhaustive investigation into the condition of the inhabitants of the Madeira Islands. After eight years of preparation, he published a literary work on this topic in which the London Athenaeum, blind to the merits of U. S. enterprise, saw only the "naïve conceit of the compiler...
Included in the exhibition are the famous Athenaeum paintings of George and Martha Washington. Of them spoke John Neal in the Atlantic Monthly (1868), saying: "If Washington should return to life and stand side by side with the portrait and not resemble it he would be called an impostor." Also included are the portraits of the first five Presidents, painted on mahogany panels planned to resemble the texture of canvas; the first painting ever done by Stuart (at the age of 12); the alleged last painting he ever did (of Mrs. John Forrester); that of Commodore Oliver Hazzard Perry...
...years librarian of Harvard College, resigned from his post two days ago the University lost one of its most valuable servants. For forty-one years Mr. Lane has continually worked for the good of the library, with but six years intermission, when he served as librarian at the Boston Athenaeum, from the time he entered its service in 1881, until when he resigned last week...