Word: cottas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week bearing 49 Catholic priests and Bishop John Joseph Swint of Wheeling. The party drew up before the small churchyard at Sand Fork. Forming in procession, the men of God marched into the church. There Bishop Swint solemnly handed purple robes, a purple biretta and a white lace cotta (surplice) to a wrinkled-faced, white-haired old priest named Thomas Aquinas Quirk whom Pope Pius XI had elected to invest with the title Monsignor...
...svelte Bronze Youth by the Belgian sculptor Georges Minne contrasts with the emotionally powerful terra cotta Head of a Woman by Wilhelm Lehmbruck and makes the essentially German qualities of the latter all the more apparent. Dainty modern Nymphenburg porcelains made from the eighteenth century molds by Franz Bustelli are placed near the delicate bronze antelope by the contemporary sculptress, Renee Sintenis and show her to be part of an old German tradition of technical excellence. Violently abstract paintings and prints along with sharply realistic ones suggest something of the chaos of postwar Germany...
...leaves from the Gutenberg Bible- $5,100; a first edition of Gray's Elegy- $3,500; a second edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems-$3,400; a complete set of Declaration of Independence signers- $18,989; an Ispahan palace carpet-$13,000 a glazed terra cotta altarpiece from the workshop of Delia Robbia-$7,600; a two-handled Queen Anne silver cup and cover - $1,550; a 16th Century Tournai tapestry...
...Club at the Academy of Medicine. Sole medical subject in the show was medical in name only-Vitamins, a composition of a lemon, oranges, a grapefruit, potatoes, filled whiskey and milk bottles, by Club Secretary Dr. Henry Amabric Bancel. Dr. Walter Beran Wolfe showed a polychromed terra cotta Self Portrait with black lips, a plaster pictorialization of his name which consisted of a bear with a W in his left paw astride a wolf. The latter he called a "glyptogram." Dr. Frank H. Netter had a courteous portrait of Dr. Charles Norris, New York's Chief Medical Examiner. Opthalmologist...
...excited when he uncovered a mosaic floor 31 by 24 ft., laid by Romans of the empire period. Its central panel depicted a palm-bearing athlete and a seated figure of Eutychia. In the nearby temple of Aesculapius, Patron of Healing, Professor Stillwell's men found terra cotta models of parts of the human body, apparently brought by invalids as votive offerings. Palestine. And when Jehu was come . . . Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. . . . And he lifted up his face to the window, and said...