Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stair, although he began reporting when he was only 14 and kept at it until he was 30, quit newspaper work for the theatre. He wrote a play and produced it himself. The play succeeded. He was lucky. Thereafter he stayed in amusements; organized the Stair & Hamlin group of 18 theatres. When he sold out in 1916 he was reputedly the richest theatrical man in the U. S.?with...
...praiseworthy event. In a park the Girls' Glee Club sang "Illinois" and "America the Beautiful"; many "midwestern pioneers" over the age of 75 and old residents of central Illinois sat cheerfully in a grandstand. Several persons, including famed Sculptor Lorado Taft, made speeches. Then there was unveiled a bronze group statue, The Pioneers, by famed Sculptor Taft...
...bronze group well rewarded their efforts. Ten feet high, on a granite base, it shows a young pioneer couple. The man has a gun, the woman a baby. Side by side, they stand looking in the direction of the possible peril. The park around the statue is neat and luxuriant. No other U. S. village the size of Elmwood has yet shown the wisdom or the ability to adorn itself so well...
...because his father taught school there; it was after his father, Don Carlos Taft, left Elmwood to be professor of geology at the University of Illinois, that young Lorado gave precocious and legendary birth to his interest in sculpture. A crate containing a cast of the snake-grappled Laocoon Group came to the university. Dismayed to find that the art object had been smashed in transit, 12-year-old Lorado who had accompanied his father to superintend the uncrating, seized the fragments and fitted them cleverly into their proper places, a feat his father had been unable to accomplish. Sculptor...
...group of apes and chimpanzees was inoculated with the bacillary vaccine...