Word: designate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distance to the northeast of the Roosevelt Memorial site, other strenuous Americans are commemorated. There, upon a frieze that belts the dome 75 feet from the floor, a fresco depicts scenes from U. S. history beginning with the landing of the bold Italian adventurer, Cristoforo Colombo. Work upon this design was started long ago by Constantino Brumidi, Italian artist, carried on by Filippi Costaggini, another Italian, but suspended in 1899 and never resumed. A gap of blank wall breaks the complete circuit of the frieze...
...death-struck town, Fane went about his work, spoke little to his wife. She decided that he had brought her there to die. She showed her scornful acquiescence to this design by helping herself one evening to salad. He followed suit. Every night after that they sat facing each other, munched the lethal lettuce...
...Theatregoers' Club has been successfully organized, the Dramatic Club has decided to produce only undergraduate plays, and now a new movement is stirring in the minds of those who are deeply interested in the theatre. This is the desire for a new course, one in the history of stage design and theatrical production...
...available for a memorial in his home town to Warren Gamaliel Harding, 29th President of the U. S., $800,000. Last week, it was decided to reserve $100,000 for landscape gardening, $100,000 for an endowed upkeep and to proceed at once to build with the balance. The design will be selected by Andrew W. Mellon, John W. Weeks, Charles M. Schwab. Mr. Mellon is an art collector, has Rembrandts and Cazins in his Washington apartment. Mr. Weeks and Mr. Schwab are not known to be extensive collectors...
Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, are shareholders and prominent backers of the Stout Metal Airplane Corporation, constructing not "flivvers" but large, all-metal passenger planes of the most modern and refined design. Powered with a Liberty motor, the Stout plane can carry eight passengers within its roomy cabin and fly over 100 miles an hour for long stretches. According to a Dearborn announcement, five or six of these planes will be ready this year, and the great Ford organization expects to sell them, without difficulty, on behalf of the Stout Co. The Liberty motor is now getting...