Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duplicating Yellowstone's famous landmark, University Hall's own geyser shot skyward at precisely 11 o'clock yesterday morning. A fire alarm bell rang, and, from a hitherto unnoticed well, a huge brown spout of water rose until it showered a squirrel 37 feet distant...
...Pennsylvania Museum and of Curator Henry Plumer Mcllhenny, who assembled the present show, was to admit only those Daumier items whose authenticity is 100% established. So hard did young Mr. McIlhenny plug at this task of curatorial scholarship that his exhibition is by way of being a landmark in the scientific treatment of art. On the cover of the Daumier catalogue is no lithograph or painting but an X-ray photograph. The X-ray shows a section of the wood panel on which Daumier painted La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress), a celebrated work lent by the Louvre and insured...
...more drinks here until the leaves come back to the trees, and the Tercentenary fountain, restoration of an earlier Harvard landmark, returns with the spring...
Captain James Job Trolley is a tall, leathery pioneer eccentric, complete with cape and beaver hat, whose "monstrous antics" and windy wit have made him for half a century the liveliest landmark in Denver (called Goldtown). Nominally he is the mining editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald, at a life salary of $15 a week; in practice his daily pieces automatically go in the managing editor's wastebasket. His real mission in life is to fight the 20th Century. Tourists, those "fleas on the world's back." who always go for him with cameras, he always goes...
...official statement, dated August 24, officials say "the university will demolish the outmoded Hemenway Gymnasium, a Harvard landmark since 1878," build the new school on the site vacated, "and erect a new gymnasium nearby which will carry the Hemenway name...