Word: bullfinches
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...West at midyears. My room was too small for them so my room-mate very agreeably shifted with me. This room looks over the Court and at night if my little black alarm clock is stopped I can look at the big illuminated dial in the Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbot pediment opposite. Thus I know when it is twelve o'clock and high time to stop studying. Or if I am not studying I know when it is high time to stop something else...
Henry R. Shepley '10, of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott, architects of slandered Harvard, when confronted merely said, "Let him have a crack...
Shortly after Repeal Julius Kessler returned to Manhattan with his bull terrier Roxy and his bullfinch Dickie, there passed his 80th birthday. Still sleek and jolly, he was observed stuffing pigs' knuckles and sauerkraut, running down a street after a taxi, dancing until 5 a. m. on New Year...
Twenty-three Belmont birds were billed to sing in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center last week, and, according to advance notice, they would prove their skill with solos, quartets, sextets, choruses. The bullfinch, first on the program, was obviously stagestruck. Trainer Belmont waved his head until his Windsor tie trembled. The finch careened too, but his tongue stayed tied. If the canaries were disappointing in song, they at least knew when to start and stop. They trilled a few chords, gave a slight suggestion of harmony...
...Capitol rotunda. There one hot August day in 1841 Congress in its silk hats assembled for the unveiling. The Navy Band played martial airs. Down came the curtains, and there sat George Washington naked to the waist (see cut). Current opinion of the statue was best expressed by Charles Bullfinch, architect of the Boston State House...