Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sesquicentennial. The President hemmed & hawed, would promise nothing. Then Senator Moses asked for a contribution to the memorial fund. Promptly President Hoover signed a check for $100. Before going to the Navy Department to get another $100 subscription from Secretary Adams, the Senator issued this bit of mosaic. ''It's not in the cards to take the Republican nomination away from President Hoover...
...ranging from 69-year-old Christopher Grant to 16-year-old John II. Water-colors by the three sons, Artist Bancel, Architect Christopher Grant, Retired Banker Oliver Hazard Perry, showed that they had drunk deep of Father John's medicine. Largest exhibits were the enormous cartoons for the mosaic tympanum of Washington's Trinity College Chapel by Son Bancel and Grandson Thomas Sergeant...
...comparatively rich in Egyptian, Classical, Gothic, Renaissance and Modern. Of that whole period from the 4th to the 13th Century referred to by Victorian professors as the dark ages, U. S. collections have scarcely anything but a few fragments of Romanesque sculpture, an occasional porphyry column or bit of mosaic. This period is completely covered by the Welfenschatz. Earliest of the pieces is an 8th Century enamel plaque bearing a pop-eyed head of Christ. Latest is a silver relic cross made in 1483. Most important artistically is a casket reliquary in the form of a Byzantine church of gold...
...bought a large estate in Oyster Bay, L. I., hard by Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill. Here he designed and built an amazing house, "Laurelton Hall." which looks a little like a M axfield Parrish palace, a little like a factory, is magnificently kept up and contains a mosaic chapel, greenhouses, fountains, innumerable stained glass windows, rubber trees, orchids, and, frightening to children, a colossal bronze crab...
...Barnard Arch. Critical eyebrows raised slightly to learn that it is to be of blue tombstone granite, 120 ft. high, 60 ft. wide, covered with an intricate icing of nine-foot, white marble figures: nursing mothers, pregnant women, soldiers, supermen. Over the top will go a rainbow of colored mosaic glass...