Word: details
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington. The design of the Minute Man was accepted in 1873. Last week, his daughter, Margaret French Cresson, viewed with pride his latest figure in bronze. It was called Whence, Whither, Wherefore. As chairman of the exhibition, Daughter could draw attention to Father's fine mastery of detail. But she allowed others to point out her own bronze portrait bust of Commander Richard E. Byrd...
...chronicle is complete−a tragic tale of fatality done into poetic prose. Dramatic in sweep, The Babyons is a distinguished piece of writing that glows with colorful finesse of concrete detail. Clemence Dane (Will Shakespeare, and A Bill of Divorcement) lives deep in Devonshire, where she feeds her guests cold ham for breakfast...
...near the Meadowbrook Club, center of U. S. polo, the slightest detail of international matches is made the subject of almost endless speculation. So important a detail as a postponement stirred unusually eager discussion. Would the added days give the U. S. four, new as a team to international play, a much-needed opportunity to work in W. Averell Harriman at No. 1, and to settle the contest for the No. 4 position? Every poloist loves and reveres the name of Devereaux Milburn, most famed No. 4 of all time. Meadowbrook fans had to scour their memories to recall...
...point of fact, Painter John was coming to the U. S. to portray Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts, together with his wife and four children. The portrait, if typically successful, would doubtless be bright in color, not too careful in detail; it would be possible to recognize in its style the influence of Gaugin and more especially Cezanne. The canvass would be notable for a certain quality of excitement combined with certainty of technique...
...legs about the neck of Scoop Morgan. Later, the Maharajah discovers that he has been photographed; he swoons. A doctor offers to aid him, takes him to a tent, murders him, steals his precious emerald. And, all the while, Miss Pat, hidden in an adjoining tent, is recording every detail of the murder with her camera. How this scoop of scoops reached the office and what happened to Miss Pat are done in the best delayed-climax manner...