Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game over, he grabbed his sweatshirt off the floor, brushed ahead of several less cager exercisers to be the first to get a drink at the fountain, and vanished in a flurry of propelling hands and legs...
Thus did courtly Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst of Arizona refer to the hearings of his Senate Judiciary Committee on the President's Supreme Court Plan. Last week the Committee rounded out its fourth week of hearings, listening to an assortment of the Plan's opponents, including Henry M. Bates, dean of the University of Michigan (who some 30 years ago taught law to both Henry Ashurst and Burton Wheeler), Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Professor Edwin Borchard of Yale Law School, John T. Flynn, financial writer, Lawyer William B. McDowell of Royal Oak, Mich., Erwin N. Griswold, professor...
...model stand holding a stuffed bittern by the right leg. It was a unique occasion in the history of U. S. art. William Rush, the first native wood carver of sufficient ability and reputation to be known as a sculptor, was at work on the first public fountain figure ever erected in the U. S., using, so far as records show, the first living female model. Years later the scene was painted by famed Thomas Eakins in one of his better canvases...
This week the fountain of Miss Vanuxem and her bittern (known officially as the "Spirit of the Schuylkill") was on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and with it something unique in the history of art exhibitions: every known surviving work by Sculptor William Rush. Preparing for the show for ten months, Curator Henri Marceau raised the list of known surviving Rush items from about 30 to 80, and though it entailed a raid on Independence Hall itself for a statue of Washington, all of them were finally made available for this week's show...
...financing will go to retire 40,837 shares of the present 6½% preferred stock, the rest for 40 new stores scattered all over the U. S. Scheduled for opening this summer in Miami is a five story Walgreen drugstore with three stories of soda fountain & eating facilities which will be Walgreen's biggest and best...