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Word: higgenbotham (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calls it a bird, so do I. In this there are certain elements of a bird. The profile suggests perhaps the breast of a bird." "It might also suggest the keel of a boat or the crescent of a new moon," said Presiding Justice Waite. Assistant Attorney General Marcus Higgenbotham said: "A mechanic could have done this thing." Countered Sculptor Epstein: "No ... he could have polished this but he could not have conceived it." Finally, sick of a nagging, abstruse controversy, Justice Waite intelligently decided to delay a decision until testimony from Birdmaker Brancusi, now in Paris, could be secured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bird | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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