Word: inscriptionless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ensued a squabble royal while the library stood inscriptionless. Wrathful Monsignor Ladeuze caused to be clandestinely prepared a second set of balustrade stones spelling: In Bella Reducta; In Pace Resti-tuta ("Destroyed In War; Restored In Peace"). The secret leaked out. Mr. Warren hired roustabouts and huskies to rush his stones into place. Rector Ladeuze stopped them with a court injunction and the entire police force of Louvain, then hired other huskies to put up his stones. No sooner were they in place than a band of his own students appeared shouting "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!", climbed to the roof...
...inscription was finally omitted by order of Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of Louvain University (TIME, July 9), who caused to be erected first a stone balustrade without inscription which was smashed by his own students, and second an equally inscriptionless plaster of Paris balustrade...
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