Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andean Christ. After Santiago, the itinerary called for a special train to Santa Rosa de Los Andes (Chile), whence the narrow gauge Transandine Railway climbs up to burrow through the Cumbre tunnel at an altitude of 10,452 feet. Half a mile higher, on a ridge in the oldtime Cumbre pass, stands "Christ of the Andes," the peace statue which Chile and Argentine cast from their cannon after Edward VII of England arbitrated their last quarrel in 1902. "Peace to all nations" says that statue's pedestal...
...Sooner shall these mountains crumble into dust than the people of Argentina and Chile break the peace which they have sworn to maintain at the feet of Christ the Redeemer" As a bearer-of-goodwill from the U. S. approached the Cumbre, in the Christmas season, on the southernmost swing of his South American pilgrimage, the lofty Andean Christ seemed to attain a new significance, perhaps: "Peace on high, goodwill to continents...
Rumanian Sculptor Constantin Brancusi had to pay $4,000 to bring his Bird in Flight into the U. S. (TIME, March 7, 1927). Works of art are duty free. But Sculptor Brancusi's bird had neither head, feet nor feathers. It was four and a half feet of bronze which swooped up from its base like a slender jet of flame. Customs Inspector Kracke said it was not art; merely "a manufacture of metal . . . held dutiable at 40% ad valorem." The press bantered, jibed. Indignant modernists wrote abstruse, defensive paragraphs. Sculptor Brancusi complained to the Customs Court...
...undraped . . . that is unessential criticism . . . only by stripping the figure could the artist tell the story he has told ... it expresses the inward idealism of the emancipator in terms of the physical -in the torso emaciated by labor but muscularly overdeveloped by the same toil. The crossed feet seem to grow out of the earth and the strange pose, at once naïve and striking, suggests ancient statues of Christ...
...Brooklyn, one Mrs. George Sayyah testified that her husband had dragged her by the hair and had compelled her to kiss his mother's feet. "What's this?" asked the judge. George Sayyah sullenly gave no reply. Shocked, furious, the magistrate said: "No more of this foot-kissing...