Word: lorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statue of Washington carved by the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, which for 29 years had ignominiously squatted "in the mud" in Seattle, Wash., was upped to a 27-ft. pedestal near University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery. Found under Washington's feet were three undignified objects: a whiskey bottle cap, a punctured balloon, and a bemired note to "Dear Harry." The note: "Hiya, egg. . . . What have you been doing lately? Do you still go on those long walks like we used to? 'Bye, you snow bat.* Can you read this? If I thought you could...
Franklin Roosevelt did not "win his Phi Beta Kappa key through scholarship." Twice awarded him honoris causa, it was given by both Hobart College chapter and the Harvard College chapter in 1929. Other famed honorary Phi Beta Kappas: John Marshall. Washington Irving, John Greenleaf Whittier, Lorado Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Glenn Frank. In the past three years Phi Beta Kappa has awarded no honorary memberships...
...Died. Lorado Taft, 76, sculptor; of heart disease; in Chicago. He created Washington's Columbus Memorial Fountain, The Fountain of Time on Chicago's Midway for which at his death he was carving a companion Creation. He took up sculpture because he considered it "the one art that cannot be cursed with American 'casualness...
...outspoken address was given by venerable Sculptor Lorado Taft. On the subject of war memorials, he said...
...latest encounter with State authorities. Commissioned to do an Illinois memorial of the Lincoln-Douglas debate, he was told that in his preliminary sketch the figure of Stephen Douglas was not prominent enough. "I told them that the fault was not mine but God's," chuckled Lorado Taft, "and they haven't answered...