Word: gemmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta's new home of culture and the arts sits like a gem of truth, bowered in lovely green trees and shrubs, with the gentle rising sweep of lawn in front, on Peachtree street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth. Formerly the High home, it was given to the city, through the art association, by Mrs. Joseph Madison High, to be a perpetual home of art in this southern metropolis and to house the permanent collection which Atlanta will gather together for the inspiration and training of her gifted sons and daughters of the generations yet to come...
...middle of the summer on account of the weather, J. L. Shuke, formerly of "47" Workshop, composed a ballad which we all added to and modified during the tour. It was sung during our wanderings on the highway and was really quite inspiring. Set to the tune of Columbia, Gem of the Ocean', it goes as follows...
...industrial museum gift paralleled the $2,500,000 bequest by the late Henry R. Towne, lock and hardware man, to New York for a Museum of Peaceful Arts (TIME, April 12): Mr. Towne had been interested in such a museum by Dr. George F. Kunz, mineralogist and gem expert, an honorary fellow of the American Museum of Natural History, who had visited every world's fair since the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876. Announcement of the Towne bequest sent experts in agriculture, animal industry, mining and metallurgy, transportation, engineering, aeronautics, etc., etc., flocking to Europe to study exhibits in such...
...about direct-mail-advertising") to comment upon or reproduce advertisements which, in the Mailbag's judgement, have emitted a definite sparkle in the thick welter of advertisements-blatant and humble, proud and straining, prosaic and hysterico-lyrical-that fill the public prints. Lately, the Mailbag found a gem. It was in the American Mercury and it advertised that melange of outgrown modes and manners, The Mauve Decade by Thomas Beer (TIME, July 5, BOOKS), not only in the curlicued typefaces of 30 years ago, but likewise in the hoarse, stentorian phrases of an 1890 barker...
...India, had donned the uniform of a colonel-in-chief of the Royal Horse Guards. Her Majesty the Queen-Empress shimmered majestically, clad in a gown of silver tissue overlaid with tulle embroidered with pearls, wearing a tiara of diamonds, the blazing Order of the Garter, many another twinkly gem of price and a train of Irish point lace. As the supreme moments ticked on, many of the 300-odd female presentees glanced nervously at the back of a court bouquet. Therein had been embedded against ultimate emergencies a tiny mirror. The curtsying began...