Word: oak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Belt. Soon by a gold safety pin there was attached to M. Franqui the highest decoration in the gift of the Belgian Crown-the Order of Leopold. Twinkling it dangled, glittered: a gold edged white enamel cross suspended from a royal crown and resting on a green laurel and oak wreath, at the centre on a black field the golden lion of Belgium, below the motto L'Union Fait La Force. . . . King Albert of the Belgians stepped back from decorating M. Franqui. All the world knows that it was M. Franqui who negotiated the $100,000 000 loan which...
...These two move with Nature. They love, while the old dictator groans on his death bed, stubbornly believing himself invincible against the encroachments of time. The iron is driven, at last, into his soul. Broken in body, robbed of his faith in his own supremacy, he falls, like an oak that tried to withstand the spring floods long after its sap had dried up. Playwright Murray has created a character, brilliantly interpreted by Una O'Connor; a wizened Cassandra, whose unheeded prophecies point, from the beginning, to the Nemesis...
...read some reports of an early Virginia Grand Jury. The clerk of the court told them that George Washington had once been fined for "profane swearing." Mrs. Coolidge asked: "What was profane swearing'?" The clerk could not answer. So they climbed in their car again and proceeded to Oak Hill, the 2,000-acre estate of President Monroe. Here the President and Mrs. Coolidge saw dinosaur footprints in the stone flooring of the breakfast room, had tea. A detour on the return to the White House added pleasure to the trip...
...Fogg Art Museum will have for one of its ceilings on the main floor a carved oak masterpiece from Dijon, France, dating from the 15th century. This ceiling of massive oak beams is the handwork of French monks of the Renaissance period and was designed for a royal chateau. Agents for the Fogg Museum purchased this art treasure when it was discovered that its size approximated that of one of the ceilings of the new buildings...
...many points on the highway, the 48 foot trailer and its convey of trucks encountered sharp curves, narrow roadways, and other obstacles. However, the highway inspector and the truckmen succeeded in escorting the oak sections safely to Cambridge and the Renaissance acquisition has been installed in the new museum after a memorable pilgrimage from Dijon...