Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon one Hasakura, dead these past three hundred years. By one command of the mighty Regent the mouldering ambassador" and his entombed descendants rise from their plebeian ashes to trail the clouds of their new nobility. The only parallel in the Western World is the tri-centennial crowning of Bacon with the laurels of Shakespeare...
...President received Major General Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service, and the aviators who will take part in the Army's around-the-world flight to start from Los Angeles on March 15. "Bring home the bacon," said Mr. Coolidge...
...Bacon received on May 18, 1923 (TIME, May 28) the greatest tribute that can be bestowed on an American architect. On the evening of that day, in the shadow of his great memorial, whither he had been escorted by a most distinguished gathering of architects, artists, statesmen, he was presented with the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. This tribute had been given in all to six persons.* Warren G. Harding officiated in the pageant. In a laudatory speech, Royal Cortissoz said: "Has he [Bacon] not stated in enduring beauty the faith of a nation in an immortal...
...Besides Bacon those who received the Gold Medal are: Victor Laloux of France. Charles F. McKim of the U. S. (designer of the Morgan Library). Jean Louis Pascal of France. George B. Post of the U. S. Sir Aston Yebb of Great Britain...
Died. Henry Bacon, 58, famed architect; in Manhattan...