Word: busted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unveilling of a bust of Dean Briggs--Professor Joseph H. Beale...
Proudly borne between grey-uniformed State troopers, an elaborately colored plaster bust was brought from the New York State Police barracks at Hawthorne, N. Y. last week and propped up before hard-boiled detectives at New York City's police headquarters. As far as police authorities could remember, it was the first time that an attempt had been made to solve a murder by reconstructing the probable appearance of the victim with the aid of a sculptured bust...
Photographs of the Guinzburg bust were broadcast to the police of New York State, in the hope that some one would identify the murdered man and thus start the law after his killer...
...conservative, elegant wing of late Renaissance sculpture which at first sight appears to be a copy of some portrait of Marcus Aurelius with its finely shaped head, its mass of close curls and prominent brooding eyes, all familiar from his equestrian statue as emperor and his marble bust...
...hope some day to see in San Francisco's Civic Centre-a charming crossroads-a bust of Stephen Girard, with that wistful look of human kindness that begets a rich man's philanthropy, where he might smile at Leland Stanford across the corridor of time...