Word: busting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foremost sculptor of his day. He was patronized by a series of Popes, filled Rome with examples of his architecture and sculpture, and he was employed by Charles I of England and Queen Christina of Sweden. He was also invited to France by Louis XIV to do a portrait bust, the fullest expression of the Baroque style in sculpture...
...week bus boy in the Talk of the Town, an eating place on Dallas' Main Street. Sculptor Townsend never tried modeling until one day a few months ago, when the mud in his back yard suddenly looked malleable and inviting. He fooled around, did busts of Washington and Lincoln from pictures, but he could not fix the ears right. On his way home from work he dropped in at the Dallas Art Institute, asked Instructor Harry Lee Gibson how ears were done. On Instructor Gibson's advice, Sculptor Townsend did his next modeling from life -a bust...
...Twentieth Century-Fox Producer Darryl F. Zanuck for consistently high quality in 1937 production went the newest & biggest award, an effeminate-looking bust of the late young M-G-M producer, Irving G. Thalberg; to meritorious others, other Oscars, plaques, scrolls. In other years winners were chosen by vote of the Academy members (less than 1,000). This year the chief ones were elected in a poll of 15,000 actors, directors, writers, other eligible Hollywood craftsmen...
...pays an eloquent tribute to Mary Hunter, whose wit and beauty inspired Henry James, George Moore, Rodin, Sargent and himself. One of his stories about her gives the slightly archaic flavor of his worldly revelations, which sound like something out of Proust. When Rodin was working on a bust of Mary Hunter he praised her beauty, kissed her hand "a little too greedily." When she told Blanche of Rodin's excitement when they were alone in his studio, "I reminded her," he says, "of J. Dominique Ingres' frenzy in the presence of Comtesse d'Haussonville." It appears...
...year ago Thomas Dewey, at the height of his campaign to bust the big racketeering trusts, descended upon Harlem with devastating effect, scaring the wits out of most of the bankers and collectors. Most of the busy executives of the industry left the city. Six months later Dixie Davis and eleven others were indicted. Dixie Davis had a $5,000 reward put on his head...