Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Leopold of Belgium, Foreign Minister Hymans, U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, Burgomaster Max of Brussels, Mr. Edgar Rickard of the U. S, Belgian Relief Commission, other officials and dignitaries, doffed hats and made, speeches as mortar was applied to the cornerstone of new buildings for the free university in Brussels...
...ridiculous. But as to a sense of humor giving poise to an individual, there Mr. Frank is wrong. Everyone knows that poise can come only from an exclusive finishing school, or from lots of blue blood. The simple day-laborer, laughing heartily when his fellow-workman falls into the mortar box, is possessed of no poise...
Consider the unhappy lot of the plasterer. When his daily task is done, he must return to his home wearing the vestments of his smeary occupation-- no opportunity to change to Sunday clothes, or to wash the caked mortar from his neck, even if he felt so inclined. No wonder the poor fellow has no pride of craftsmanship left...
...Comstock, the names of those who contributed towards the cost of the new dormitory, a recent Radcliffe pamphlet, the Red Book and the latest copy of the Radcliffe News. President Emeritus Briggs then delivered a short speech of dedication and fixed the cornerstone in place with a trowelful of mortar...
...Florence Kling Harding: "For the first time since President Harding's death, I took part in a public ceremony. In Bridgeport, Conn., with a silver trowel I applied mortar to the cornerstone for the new $1,000,000 Warren Harding High School. Said I to interviewers: 'Some day I may go back to Ohio to engage in the newspaper business again...