Word: bustly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome last week one Guarino Roscioli, young sculptor, chiseled with Renaissance fever on a marble bust of and for Pope Pius XI. The commission was a result of His Holiness' good nature. He had seen a passable clay model which Sculptor Roscioli had made solely from photographs, had summoned the young man to correct some lineaments from a personal sitting...
...archaeological material found in Egyptian soil shall be divided equally between Egypt and the finder. Equal division in quantity is relatively simple, but equal division in quality offers great problems. In 1912 German Archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt quietly extracted from Tel-el-Amarna, and removed to Berlin, a gracile bust of Queen Nefertiti which was more precious to Egyptians than tons of jeweled bric-a-brac. First, it was supposed to possess magical properties. Second, it was pronounced by worldwide experts to be among the loveliest creations of the ancient dynasties. For a few dollars, the Berlin museum supplied plaster reproductions...
When old Johns Hopkins men revisit their school, or when callers come from foreign lands, they enter the great limestone Italian Renaissance library through its bronze doors, climb a flight of stairs, see a bronze bust of Dr. Welch on the landing, climb on to the second floor and in the Great Hall see John Singer Sargent's portrait of the Four Founders-a huge canvas glowing with rich reds, symbolical of a great nation's medical cornerstone...
...emeritus, gathered to honor him on his seventy-fifth birthday. Professor Hanus was presented with a fund to be devoted to establishing a permanent memorial to him in the Graduate School of Education, which he was instrumental in founding. The memorial will take the form of a bronze plaque, bust, or portrait depending on Professor Hanus's wishes...
...Equator is H.R.H. He first crossed the Line in 1920, crossed again last year on his interrupted African hunting trip which he is now completing, and was once incautious enough to allow himself to be festively photographed in a blonde wig, a most effeminate dressing gown, a palpably false bust...