Word: busts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over a tawny glass of Spanish sherry a suave Semite faced London reporters in his flat last week. They knew that he had just made a bust of the largest British magazine enterprise of recent years, was regarded by some as a not inconsiderable ass. Twirling his glass of sherry, Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau alibied...
...Vienna, a little room in an upholsterer's house was draped in black, lit with candles. A hundred years ago it was Schubert's death chamber. Last week it was empty save for an altar and a marble bust. Yet there, for tribute, gathered highest dignitaries to hear the solemn mass pronounced by His Eminence Gustave Frederic Cardinal Piffl, Archbishop of Vienna. Outside the little house the street was roped off, guarded by police. Only honored guests were admitted-and 500 school children who sang Schubert songs...
...John Dewey any less alive last week when a bust of John Dewey was unveiled at Columbia University, for he is one of the few mortals to whom immortality of fame is already conceded...
John Dewey's bust was fashioned by the able hands of Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Among those whose gift it was were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Clarence Darrow, Economist Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Sociologist Owen Reed Lovejoy, Educator-Scientist David Starr Jordan, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise...
Ironic was the announcement, made the day before Strong died, that the National Bank of Brussels was to give him a marble bust of himself in appreciation of his aid in stabilization of Belgian currency...