Word: busting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show are many wood-panels of nymphs and Nationalistic God-heads. Moses appears in two forms: a bust and a full-length bronze of seething, impassioned aspect. In an era when it is fashionable to divorce art from religion and other such influences, Ivan Mestrovio, bred close to Croatian soil, retains much of the peasants' religious awe; infuses his sculpture with that spirit...
...engaged in writing a play which incorporates such progressive features as a girl on a bicycle and a bishop, both nude, but appearing in total darkness. His wife Sena (Phoebe Foster) is painting a geometrical portrait of Percival Redingote (Alan Mowbray) who, in turn, is about to carve a bust of Sena. Because Miss Foster is a brittle beauty, Mr. Morgan an absurd farceur, and Jo Mielziner, who designed the scenery, knows how to burlesque the futuristic trend, this satire on ultra-modern estheticism by Novelist Ernest Pascal (The Marriage Bed) has its memorable moments. What the quaint older generation...
...wrestler, longtime crusader for clean boxing, originator of state boxing inspection, was given a testimonial dinner in Manhattan in honor of his approaching 85th birthday. To it went folk like Elihu Root, Walter Percy Chrysler, Oliver Harriman, Felix Warburg. Toastmaster John McEntee Bowman presented Muldoon a portrait, a bronze bust. Thomas brought back a silver-banded stick which Boxing Champion Heenan had given Muldoon 50 years ago. Muldoon lost the stick in 1880. Darraugh said he had received it in 1890 from the late Sportsman Thomas Gould...
...resembles King Henry VIII in jolly mood, that he organized Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (1918), and now its Department of the History of Medicine and its Medical Library. As last week he walked with the applauding throng of notables,* through the library building, past a bust of himself and into the library's great hall, he paused near an ancient statuette of Asklepios and looked at Sargent's The Four Doctors hanging above the fireplace. And Osier again seemed to be saying to him as once before he said: "This is the stock...
Secretary Stimson also recalled that Mr. Barlow once threatened to "bust on the nose" his predecessor, Frank Billings Kellogg, because that old gentleman did not seem interested enough in his case...