Word: mausoleums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safety of the caravan. King & Queen bade each other a tearful goodbye. Queen Victoria Eugenie and her children began their flight to France by driving to the Escorial, that rambling building 31 miles from Madrid that is at the same time a monastery, a church, a palace and a mausoleum, whose name is literally "The Dump." A curious crowd gathered at the Escorial railroad station where the Royal car, its white blinds drawn, stood coupled to a puffing locomotive. Queen Victoria Eugenie and her children descended to the Escorial crypt where lie the bones of the Kings and Queens...
Ghouls with sledgehammers and crowbars chipped and battered at a fortlike mausoleum in the Moravian Cemetery, at New Dorp, Staten Island, N. Y. where lie the bones of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt & kin. But the ghouls did not get in. Police who tracked footsteps through the snow next day recalled that 53 years ago the body of John Wanamaker's department-store predecessor, Alexander Turney Stewart, was stolen from its grave...
...Just behind the tomb are the bodies of the Soviet "apostles" including two from the U. S.: John Reed of Harvard, Big Bill Haywood of Chicago. To correspondents, Architect A. G. Schuse explained his design: "For five years we have waited for a perfect design for Lenin's mausoleum but none has been forthcoming. All that time I have worked to improve the original design. ... I made hundreds of' sketches, plans and colored drawings showing how the tombs would harmonize with the ancient kremlin wall behind it in color, shape and line until the Central Committee finally...
...Tiffany Favrile Glass. His first U. S. exhibit, "A Dock Scene, Yonkers," was in the National Academy of 1869. He became (and remains) Vice President and Art Director of Tiffany & Co., jewelers. He is president and founder of Tiffany Furnaces and Tiffany Studios, which have filled many a church, mausoleum, library, with windows artfully simulating oil paintings. He is one of the most revered patrons of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose President Robert Weeks De Forest is his great & good friend...