Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West train robbers embellished their felonies with quixotic gestures, fantastic flourishes. Last of the old school was Bill Carlisle who, after he had wrecked a train, would hold up the passengers with a candy-filled glass pistol. A train robbery in Wyoming last week showed how the old tradition has degenerated...
...panel which is on exhibition is a single medallion from the window devoted to the lives of the reformers, and depicts St. Francis of Assisi renouncing his riches. The panel, which has been lent to the Museum by Messrs. Reynolds, Francis & Rohnstock in connection with the lectures on stained glass which are being given by Professor Marcel Aubert, is on exhibition in Gallery IV, and in order that the students may more conveniently see the construction, it has been placed at the eye level...
Opening today a display of the works of American cartoonists and caricaturists, the Harvard Society of Contemporary Art will continue the exhibition until December 20. Included among the exhibits are examples of wire sculpture by Alexander Calder and glass figures designed by other noted contemporary artists...
Each Senator flayed the public character he disliked most. Senator Norris flayed Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post. Senator Glass flayed Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of Manhattan's National City Bank. Senator Harrison flayed the Republican President. Senate attendance petered out until at the final meeting only eleven members were present. Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin rose primed to make a speech. To silence him Ohio's Senator Fess had the roll called. Newsmen in the gallery guffawed at the spectacle. Senator Heflin, sensitive to laughter, blurted a demand that the galleries be cleared...
...years ago collectors of early American glass, walking sticks, coffee strainers and teething rings fell upon the Currier & Ives prints. They began to boost their value as records of an artless age, some even insisting upon their intrinsic value as works of art. Prices mounted until now a "good" Currier & Ives print is worth about as much as a Chevrolet and rare ones can be sold to lift mortgages from old farmhouses...