Word: monuments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside Westminster Abbey, while London police stood guard before locked doors, passersby saw a glint of light through stained-glass windows. Inside the Abbey, from behind a canvas screen in Poets' Corner, came the clanking of picks. Near the base of Edmund Spenser's monument gravediggers scooped up sand from beneath the stones, uncovered a lead coffin and evidences that two more bodies had been buried in the same grave...
Leonard Crunelle was the sculptor of the monument, made possible through a bequest to the University amounting to over five million dollars from a descendant of the General...
...York, says one report, 40 boatloads went begging at one cent a pigeon, were finally thrown to the hogs.) The last passenger pigeon died in the Cincinnati zoo in 1914. It now perches behind glass in the Smithsonian Institution -an exquisitely poised, apricot-breasted model for some future monument to vanished U. S. frontiers, squandered U. S. resources...
Last week the young monarch was in Paris, there attended the dedication of a monument to his father, the late King Albert. Surprised were France's President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Daladier and Leopold's sister, the Crown Princess of Italy, when the King brushed aside the conventional speech of thanks, launched into an impassioned plea for his ideas...
...months every year the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, at other times a statue-stuffed monument to the late steel-master, becomes the world's most comprehensive salon of oil painting. The Carnegie International Exhibition, assembled with shrewd relish by the Institute's Director of Fine Arts Homer Saint-Gaudens, costs the estate of Andrew Carnegie about $40,000 a year, enlists the services of scouts in no less than ten European countries. Last month an international jury† spent two days picking eight prizewinners out of 365 paintings by U.S. and European artists; last fortnight all the paintings...