Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Williamsburg Savings Bank is the tallest building in Brooklyn, N. Y. Its deposits total $225,000,000. Passers-by were puzzled, last week, to see, high on the outer wall, a sculptured grotesque of a peterman (professional argot for bank- robber) with his dark lantern. Why should a bank thus honor its immemorial enemy? Further along was the moral answer, an other image of the peterman - behind the bars
This lecture will be given under the joint auspices of the Division of Fine Arts, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Division of Music. It will deal with "Venice in the Eighteenth Century", and will be illustrated by lantern slides and violin selections of old music. The lecture will be open to the public...
...reception line forms in the basement and crawls up a red-carpeted stairway to the main floor (see cut), where it turns left into the foyer. Vast mirrors double the crowd. Light sprays from a huge bronze lantern overhead and from countless bronze standards about the walls...
...same time in Emerson J, Professor Hersey is to give an illustrated lecture entitled "A Walk in Dickens Land". It will be accompanied by lantern slides of the scenes of various events in Dickens' novels. And finally those who are interested in French literature can hear M. Andre Chevrillon speak (in French) on the great critic Taine...
Tubmen Sirs: Shrugged cynically, Diogenes, tub-dwelling, lantern-toting tycoon. The cause: TIME'S in sinuation that a strictly residential tub ever figured in a decidedly out of character bathing episode. Glared Archimedes. "Eureka, but they have forgotten," sighed the scientific Syracusan with a gravity more than specific. H. E. PICKETT Oilman Country School, Roland Park, Baltimore...