Word: busts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What did you think of sitting for a bust...
...What did you think of the bust...
...square whitewashed room, brooded over by a death-white plaster bust of Lenin, the toys were laid out on a long table covered with black velvet. Guards stood about, their uniforms utterly without pockets and buttoned tightly at the knees and wrists. As the correspondents filed in, a train 18 inches long was whirring around the table...
Sculptor Harold P. Erskine, of Manhattan, also an habitué of Africa, tendered to the American Museum a bust of his friend, Akeley, gaunt of jaw, shaggy of head with elephant scars on his cheek...
...does so with great enthusiasm. The difficulty is not one of intention, but one of understanding. America has a great belief in education; it has faith in education and wants it, but just what it is that it wants is not very clear. Our typical expression is "Culture or bust". Here it is "understanding or bust", and I think that we ought to look at both sides of this situation. America is determined to have education and is willing to pay for it. The money that is poured into the institutions of learning is almost scandalous. One of the greatest...