Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past: 1) Arthur Ware-A triumphal arch, axised on Broadway with an esplanade enclosed by a peristyle, flanked by two buildings, one dedicated to the Army, one to the Navy. 2) Christopher Grant La Farge-An ornamental arrangement of pylons and railings framing a reception plaza, a fountain playing in a great reflecting pool, the whole scaled low, designed simply, keeping the Broadway vista open. 3) Eric Gugler-A granite shaft 800 ft. high flanked by two large armillary spheres, one symbolic of the celestial globe, one of the planets; semicircular steps 400 ft. wide from the water...
...Alumni College at Lafayette was founded on the theory that the college is not fulfilling its true function unless it at least offers the opportunity to its alumni of coming back to the campus at stated times to drink again from the fountain of learning and of youth, and to receive a little intellectual stimulation with which to offset some of the stress of our modern world. As President William Mather Lewis has said, the "camel theory" of education, whereby colleges expect their students to drink deeply in their undergraduate days, and then not to need refreshment again the rest...
...Fountain Hill, near Danville, Va., Frank W. Davis, 60, farmer, started to starve himself to death May 12, because he was too old to work, because he had no relatives. He took no food, only water. Last week he was still alive, to his neighborhood's amazement, but not to Medicine's. On June 7, threatened with commitment to the insane asylum, he took food again, having fasted 26 days...
...slow to retaliate was the Texas Legislature. It adopted a resolution calling on loyal Texans to boycott all Wisconsin manufactures, to buy nothing from that State. Texans began to cancel orders for Wisconsin plumbing fixtures, Wisconsin washing machines, Wisconsin fountain pens, Wisconsin farm implements...
Author Serna has never visited the U. S. Born in Madrid in 1891, he still lives there, is one of the sights of the Pombo Café. He carries seven fountain pens filled with red ink. His apartment contains : a street lamp, acquired legally from Madrid's Consolidated Gas Co., a beautiful wax mannequin en deshabille, a life-size skeleton, a gibbet from which hangs the King of Bulgaria. Famed orator, he once made a speech from a trapeze (at the Circo Madrileño), from an elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo...