Word: laurels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bones of many a famed '49er left San Francisco's Laurel Hill Cemetery to make way for a real estate development. Dug up were the skeletons of California's Senator David C. Broderick, killed in the West's most noted duel, in 1859, by California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry; Nevada's Senator William Sharon, Comstock Lode proprietor who entertained President Grant on gold plate in 1879; California Circuit Court Judge M. Hall McAllister, who sired Socialite Ward McAllister; William M. Bourn, whose money bought the Killarney Lakes for the Irish Free State...
...York members of Irish-American societies placed a laurel wreath at the foot of the flag pole at the World's Fair Irish pavilion in memory of the "martyrs...
...Karson splashed the Rialto's lobby with Frankenstein, Zombis, King Kong, a skeleton dangling from a scaffold, a ghoul sucking a lollipop. On his signature alp (about a foot high), by way of contrast, he put Laurel & Hardy. All are done with skilled caricature, are no screwier than the career of the young fellow who painted them. Son of a former Russian court painter, he came to the U. S. when he was four. At twelve he joined a Chicago little theatre as assistant to its art director...