Word: ettling
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...figure in moulded concrete known as The Mountain (see cut). Seven men and a three-ton truck worked from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. to get it to the museum. Winches, ropes, pulleys and masses of wadding were used to hoist it from the basement of the Ettl Studios to the street level. Sculptor Lachaise was too nervous to watch but telephoned every ten minutes for a report on progress. Standing on the sidewalk before the museum he screamed with dismay when three fire engines bore down on truck and Mountain just as they were backing...
Engaged. Alex J. Ettl, Manhattan sculptor, who designed the Goddess of Agriculture for the Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial Exposition; to Dorothy Buck, who posed for it, and who is the daughter of a famed farmer, ex-Senator Clarence Frank Buck of Illinois...
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