Word: bustly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came "evidence" and many witnesses in Claimant Morris's behalf. A nurse and a taxicab executive testified that the late John Wendel, supposedly a bachelor, had confessed to them his secret marriage and the existence of a son. Piece de resistance of the Morris claim was a bust of John Wendel executed in bronze by one Julian Bowes. Sculptor Bowes said that the science of dynamic symmetry had enabled him to reconstruct a perfect three-dimensional likeness of his subject from two old photographs. To the vast amusement of the audience and embarrassment of the Court, it was demonstrated...
...should happen . . . to sweep away every dollar I have in the world ... I could rebuild my fortune in half the time." He planned in 1925 a huge $10,000.000 loft building for his son Alan, 13. Alan died; he put up an eight-story building with his son's bust over the entrance. He was last week defending a suit brought by his stockholders...
...coming from. Consequently, a news break is like a rainbow in the sky. But this column-writing business is another story. Anybody who thinks a column a day, year in and year out, must be just too much fun for anything, can step right into my office for a bust in the snoot...
There were 300 guests at Lynnewood Hall one day last week, more than could be seated in the dining room with its dark red French tapestries and the majestic bust of the great Prince de Conde. The ballroom, with its Louis XV and XVI furniture, its Chinese vases, its four crystal chandeliers, was filled with tables. Joseph Early Widener, master of the Hall, was having a large party...
...heart disease; in Manhattan. Daughter of the late Judge Hardin Wallace Masters who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in the Springfield law firm of Lincoln & Herndon, she was a sister of Poet Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology). She studied sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle and Gutzon Borglum, had lately done a bust of Lincoln as a youth for the Illinois...