Word: comstocking
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Salon later that year, it won a medal of honor, but caused no public stir, appealed to no collector. Hoping for a buyer, Painter Chabas shipped the picture to the U.S. There the unhoped-for happened. It came to the attention of bewhiskered Anthony Comstock, self-appointed monitor of U.S. morals...
...ablest of a syndicate of shrewd Irishmen who pickaxed their way from the mines to mansions on San Francisco's Nob Hill, he was a husky man who stuttered when angry and had an ambition as single-track as her own: to become the master of the Comstock Lode. Mackay broke the Bank of California's hold on the land, and the earth's hold on its riches - burrowing 1,200 feet into the lode to uncover the Big Bonanza vein. "By God now that we've made the riffle you're entitled to your...
...life came when she was presented to Victoria, Queen not only of England but of everything that Louise Mackay most admired. In Author Berlin's simple account of that occasion, two symbols can be glimpsed: the Kohinoor diamond on the Queen's breast and the Comstock Lode that had carried Louise to Buckingham Palace. The fabulous diamond and the fabulous silver mine, the power of empire and the American frontier thus met; they could scarcely be expected to understand each other, but their meeting nonetheless seemed to have about it a touch of destiny, even of continuity...
...Russian Jewish immigrants. She notes with wonder that her grandmother was born in an East Side slum only a few blocks away from where, 50 years later, Irving Berlin spent his childhood. With just such a sense of place she moves competently from the mining disasters in the Comstock to the horrors of fire that time and again leveled the ramshackle towns of the West. In contrast there are the glittering balls in London's Marlborough House, yachting at Cowes and the stately bacchanals of the Rue de Tilsitt. It was a time when men grabbed for the main...
Four basement rooms will provide offices or meeting places for undergraduate organizations, particularly the Student Council, which now lacks adequate office space. Comstock will also have a private dining room which will be used by both Administration and student groups...