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...second day of the festival the old Major's bust was taken out of the Symphony Hall lobby, set on the stage in the centre of a floral display. Instead of music, speeches were the meat of the afternoon, with the Major's widow, a little old lady of 93, one of the guests on the stage. Professor Bliss Perry of Harvard, the Major's friend & biographer, recalled many an interesting fact: Henry Lee Higginson went only a part of one year to Harvard although he was described by President Hadley of Yale as the "ideal Harvard man." He gave...
...Sweden. She was made Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, in consideration of £100,000 earned by concerts during the War and given to the Red Cross. At her operatic farewell in Covent Garden in 1926, attended by all the Royal retinue, she received a floral kangaroo...
...true so far as the enduring work of George Luks is concerned. His artistic apprenticeship has been long and tough. When still in his 'teens he worked with his brothers in the highly specialized profession of safe-painting, decorating the strong boxes of merchants with elegant sunsets, landscapes, floral trophies. He varied this by painting band wagons, houses, campaign posters. Artist Luks still insists that he helped found one soapmaker's fortune by painting his signs on the sides of old-fashioned grocery stores. He saved enough to study painting in Philadelphia, in Paris, Düsseldorf, London...
...Democracy by smoking cigarets instead of rancid cigars. A quick, flashy smile has rendered him immensely popular. As Governor, he transferred from his own Chrysler to the Chrysler sedan furnished by the State but kept his private chauffeur. At the State House he received, among many another, a great floral tribute from Motorman Walter Percy Chrysler...
Scarcely less famed is the Ardebil carpet, now in London's Victoria & Albert Museum. A body of rich blue with delicate floral tracery surrounds a centre medallion of yellow. Sixteen minaret-shaped points lead to 16 red, gold, and green cartouches. Sacred mosque lamps hang from two of them...