Word: busting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bears the coat of arms of every town of Alsace-Lorraine. Now Montigny-le-Rio, in the Haute-Marne, birthplace of Flammarion, is by his will to have his heart to put in an urn in the City Hall, and 10,000 francs and the astronomer's bust and portrait as well...
...Everything that Shakespeare ever wrote--think of it! Plays, poems, sonnets, all under one cover--and such a cover! Flexible Keratol with the deep rich gaining of sumptuous leather--the bust of Shakespeare on the front--pages edged with gold on all three sides, too! An unparalleled opportunity and bargain of a life-time...
...this, as in other women's exhibitions, a note of apology. The most impressive work in painting and drawing was a portrait study in oil and several charcoal heads by Cecilia Beaux, "dean of feminists in Art";* in sculpture, by Malvina Hoffman, who took a prize with her bust of Paderewski...
...December, say rightly on page 21 that Smith College "bethought herself or was reminded of Poet Pierre's (Ronsard's) 400th birthday last week." But the head of the French department did not bethink himself in time to procure a bust of Ronsard to be duly "crowned," during the ceremony. A cenotaph was suggested but turned down. Finally, our professor rooted out of the Fine Arts department a bust that looked rather vaguely like Ronsard's, and it was duly crowned, with sonnets and period songs as you say. But the secret leaked out in advance; and rumor runs that...
...love and devotion of the Cuban people for Theodore Roosevelt will live in their hearts longer than the bronze bust and the granite base unveiled in his honor here today can possibly last...