Word: lid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Creeft, sculptor, is no exception. Born in Guadalajara, he studied in Barcelona and has been an art-rebel since his early days. He shocked and amused Paris with his many sculptural stunts: a picador astride, concocted with stovepipes, pot scrapers, an egg beater, some fuzz and the lid of a pan; a statue of a cat and a woman made into one (called La Femme-Chatte), and a wire ostrich. His taille directe method (the cutting of a sculpture directly from its material without rehearsals in clay- "the releasing of the form from the fundamental block") has caused many...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh opened his mouth last week in the Manhattan offices of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, to explain to reporters the plans of the Transcontinental Air Transport Co. of which he is "technical adviser." As he (lid so, something escaped about his outlook on his own future. Asked about an age limit for pilots, he replied: "I can't recognize that there is any limit. I will continue flying until I am no more able to handle a machine...
...interim, the apathy which until now has characterized the politics of Harvard has given way to sincere if violent expression, and the lid is off a campaign of roars instead of whispers...
...figure for, it is alleged, 100 years. At first, when he was put to rest in the Caruso chapel in the Naples Cemetery, his visage was exposed to view, for any strangers to. see. Six months ago, however, the glass top of the casket was replaced by an opaque lid...
...cigar box and saturated cotton with a teacupful of chloroform and put that in there with him, and then placed a pound weight on the box lid. The next morning Mr. Toad was gone. He had pulled a Houdini during the night and disappeared...