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...Lincoln Memorial, white marble rectangle surrounded by 36 Doric columns (one for each state at Lincoln's death); costing $3,000,000; designed by Henry Bacon; begun under the direction of a committee appointed by Congress in 1911, "practically" finished in 1921 and inscribed...
With night came illuminations. The Cathedral, its whole interior richly carved and gilded, blazed with an intensity offset by the gloomy shadows cast by its 20 squat Doric columns. Across the plaza, in the Palacio Nacional,* President Calles gave first a reception and then a ball. At midnight the festivities abated for an instant. President Calles stepped out upon the central balcony of the palace and pulled a cord which is pulled by every President of Mexico who manages to remain in office until a 16th of September. Boomed forth "The Liberty Bell? of Mexico." Cried Senor Calles "Viva Mejico...
Hornbostel and Eric Fisher Wood of Pittsburgh. Their design calls for a circular mausoleum, 49 ft. high and 80 ft. in diameter. It will be supported by Doric columns and within will be an open court. In the court, two black marble slabs shaded by a single willow tree will cover the sarcophagi of the President and Mrs. Harding. A stair will lead down to a marble-lined crypt. The memorial will stand in a ten-acre park for which A. D. Taylor of Cleveland will be landscape gardener. They hope to open the memorial by Nov. 2, 1927, which...
Through the Doric columns of the Brandenburg Gate, the prancing horses of the cavalry led the procession to the right along the fringes of the Tiergarten to the Reichstag Building where, before the massive statue of Bismarck, Reichstag President Lobe paid a feeling tribute to the dead first President of Germany...
...given at 5 o'clock this afternoon in Appleton Chapel by Mr. R. C. Robinson, organist of the Central Congregational Church of Boston. The program of the recital will be as follows: Maestoso--Allegro (Second Symphony) Vierne Invocation and Prayer. Londonderry Air Arr. by Sanders Toccata in D minor (Doric) Bach Silhouette Dvorak Scherzetto Vierne Fantasia in E-flat Saint-Saens "The Enchanted Forest" Stoughton Valuations on an Ancient Christmas Carol Dethier