Word: busts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louisiana Purchase Exposition gold dollars were of two stamps: one with the head of Jefferson, the other with a bust of McKinley...
...McKinley Memorial gold dollars of 1916 had a bust of McKinley...
...painted some dejected cretins playing at cards, called it "American Spirit." And another member of the Jap-Manhattan school showed "evolution" as a tree with the body of an ape, burrowing worms for roots, a fruit of masks against a sky studded with glass diamonds. There was a wooden "bust" of Paul Whiteman by Guillermo Bolin which clearly demonstrated the jazz-priest's resemblance to a sea-lion. E. E. Cummings, poet, hung a picture of angels wrestling in a vacuum. Such tolerant and able academicians as John Sloan (President of the Independent Society), Walter Pach...
...Suckling, two of the best known of the Cavalier Poets. Of the early editions of the former the most important is "Lucasta, Posthume Poems", published in 1658 after the early death of the poet. On the fly page is an excellent woodcut production of the author fashioned as a bust and placed on an urn bearing the word "Posthume". Of Suckling's works on display, the most interesting is his "Fragmenta Aurea, A Collection of All the Incomparable Pieces Written by Sir John Suckling", which was published...
Last week they rushed back for another look. A widely credited rumor had spread to the effect that Benito Mussolini is himself the owner of the bust, that he himself ordered it shipped to the U. S. for the exhibit...