Word: excelsior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aloe Plaza, outside St. Louis' Union Station, a crane last week deposited 19 excelsior-padded, jute-swathed statues on the pavement of a waterless fountain. The bulky packages looked like mummies but were the livelier fragments of a long controversy (TIME, Aug. 9, 1937; June 6, 1938) over nude statues in general, these in particular. They were the figures for famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri-known locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony...
...Ciano marriage in 1930. At least, before the marriage the Ciano family fortune was small but when the old man died three weeks ago it was estimated one of the greatest in Italy. Before his marriage Galeazzo was another of those golden lads who liked to hang around the Excelsior and Grand Hotels in Rome, where rich U. S. heiresses generally stayed. He had been a cub reporter and a society journalist who did bits of drama and literary criticism for an obscure Roman sheet. After that his father managed to get him minor posts in the consular and diplomatic...
Kingdon W. Swayne '41, of George School, Pennsylvania; Dwight D. Taylor Jr. '41, of Excelsior, Minnesota; Robert G. Urquhart '40, of Detroit, Michigan; John C. Wahlke '39, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Richard C. Webster Jr. '40, of Baltimore; Richard H. Weller '40, of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania; Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, of Madisonville, Kentucky; Grant W. Wiprud '41 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; William H. Witt '41, of Seattle, Washington; Morton G. Wurtele '40, of Harrodsburg, Kentucky; Joseph A. Wyant '40, of Atlanta, Georgia...
James Arthur Swanson, Excelsior, Minnesota--Excelsior High School...
...Melrose '40, of New York; Enrico A. Pope '40, of East Boston; Abraham Schneider '41, of Roxbury; Harold S. Shapero '41, Newton; Richard V. Smith '41, of Belmont, Charles M. Stearns '41, of Sharon, Connecticut; Henry H. D. Sterrett, Jr., '41, of Washington; and Dwight D. Taylor, Jr., '41 Excelsior, Minnesota...