Word: bustly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doheny Bust...
...built on a rock ledge, is jarred by passing trolleys and trucks. Perhaps Cardinal O'Connell would prefer to spend his remaining days in tranquil Rome, where stands his titular church, ancient San Clemente, which he has beautified at a reputed cost of $100,000, with a marble bust of himself outside...
...loans to private industry. This the Committee rejected on the ground that it would result in unfair competition between industrial concerns financed by R. F. C. and those not so aided. Secretary Mills mocked the Wagner direct relief plan thus: "When you're going to bust the Depression with a $300,000,000 appropriation it's like getting a ten-year old boy to lift up the Washington Monument and bring it here into this room...
...Swiss Minister Marc Peter presented to President Hoover Sculptor Ernest Durig. Sculptor Durig presented to President Hoover a plaster bust of George Washington so large (seven feet high) it had to be left outside on the White House lawn. Asked the puzzled President: "What shall we do with it?" Representative Sol Bloom, director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, was summoned to find an answer...
What a contrast there is between this firm-fleshed, bouncing gamin and the delicate, well brought-up little boy by Desidevaerio. The charm of this master's busts of children is almost too evanescent a thing to describe in words. One will want to look at this little head from every angle to enjoy the play of light on the wonderfully soft texture of the marble, to see how well the sculptor has caught the ever-changing expression, mischievous and yet touched with sadness, that animates the face of youth. Another piece by Desiderio, a relief of the Madonna...