Word: busting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tons of granite, erected the hoisting engine, built the studio, installed the projecting lens, built the stairway, completed the head of General Jackson, roughing out the head of President Davis ... at a cost of $118,822.61. Mr. Lukeman in 40 months has completed his model and cut the bust of General Lee at a cost of $1,421,665." Mr. Venable referred doubters to the audits...
Cincinnati last week dedicated the two new wings of its Music Hall, made it the occasion for a Greater Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. A thousand school children attended one afternoon, sang praises before a new marble bust of Stephen Foster, onetime Cincinnatian, composer of "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground," "Old Folks at Home," Old Kentucky Home" and "Old Black...
...Last week, his daughter, Margaret French Cresson, viewed with pride his latest figure in bronze. It was called Whence, Whither, Wherefore. As chairman of the exhibition, Daughter could draw attention to Father's fine mastery of detail. But she allowed others to point out her own bronze portrait bust of Commander Richard E. Byrd...
...that a band of Michigan settlers proudly named a rude village Ypsilanti. Last week some 7,000 of its citizens met to see the presentation of a marble bust of Demetrios Ypsilanti to the city by the Archontic Order of the Ahepa, Greek-American patriotic society, 3,500 visiting Ahepans paraded for two miles. Greek Aviator Nick Manteris, of Detroit, dropped a memorial wreath...
...Rector of Louvain University, Monsignor Ladeuze, proposed to Mr. Whitney Warren, the U. S. architect, whose inscription has been rejected, that a bust of Architect Warren shall be placed in the new Library and shall be sportingly inscribed : "Praenobilis Americae filius Warren ingenio cordeque perfecit. (Warren, the most noble son of America, completed [this library] by his genius and heart...