Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headlong sweep of Christianity from its founding down to the present day was depicted in a cunning mosaic of statistics last week in the American Lutheran by Dr. George Linn Kieffer. A scholarly, bespectacled Lutheran who is president of the Association of Religious Statisticians of America and author of an annual church membership survey for the Christian Herald, Dr. Kieffer pieced together censuses and researches as follows...
...George Grey Barnard vowed to devote the rest of his life to a great memorial to the men who died in war and to the women who bore them. In the ensuing months the project clarified in his mind as a gigantic arch, over 100 ft. high, with a mosaic rainbow at its summit. Though few people were interested in helping him build it, Sculptor Barnard was not discouraged. His art had given him an international reputation and a comfortable fortune. He retired into his Manhattan studio to complete his arch with his own hands and his own funds...
...handful of overcoated reporters lugging cameras and the polite directors of the trolley line. Tiptoeing round the vast draughty power house they looked at a towering erection of canvas and wallboard 100 feet high representing the arch. Over the opening was a painted rainbow which will be of colored mosaic in the finished work. Bracing either pier was an intricate iceberg of plaster. Together they contained 53 nine-foot figures-rows of muscular nude young men rising to a barrel-chested Superman with arms outstretched; nursing mothers, old men, children and refugees. Many were individual figures of great effectiveness...
...minister's household, situated in a German settlement in New York State. The life that is led there is not melodramatic, and is quite devoid of any pretense to greatness as commonly conceived. Yet each little incident, in itself hardly of vast importance, is worked into a pattern or mosaic which, as a unity, has meaning and significance...
...given me for christening the Meteor. The only difference was in the uniform that he had on, and that the gold was lighter and the diamonds around the miniature smaller in the one that I got for getting married. The present from the King of Italy was a mosaic table, so large and heavy that I have never been able to use it in any of the rather small houses that I have lived in. ... The Em press Dowager sent me an enchanting series of gifts. There were eight rolls of brocade of different colors brocaded in a gold that...