Word: obelisk
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...unexpected stroke for Mellon's contention that he will really give the U. S. his great sugar plum fell last week when Duveen popped out, under the Government's cross-questioning, that he (Duveen) actually suggested a definite site for the Mellon museum: a spot "by the obelisk near the pond" (Duveen British for the Washington Monument), that he had recommended a British architect to Mellon and that he had actually seen rough sketches of the museum plans...
...crypt in Pasadena, Calif., undertakers removed the frozen body of William Wrigley Jr., found it unchanged in appearance since they put it there three years ago. An ambulance sped it to the S. S. Catalina which bore it out to Santa Catalina Island. Near the town of Avalon an obelisk-topped mausoleum has been two years building. There William Wrigley Jr. was finally buried...
...strangest sporting trophies in the world. It was originally put up by England's Lord Stanley in 1893 for the amateur hockey championship of Canada. Since 1908 it has been emblematic of the world's professional championship. It cost $50. It looks like an ashtray on an obelisk. The cup itself, battered by travel and rough usage, long ago became too small to hold the names of all the teams that have won it. Ten 2-in. rings of silver have been added to its original base to make more room for the names of the players...
...years of free-lancing in Europe he reported the New Bedford mill strike (1928) for the Communist New Masses, next year covered the murder trial of 16 Gastonia strikers. Not a baptized Communist, 37-year-old Author Rollins keeps bachelor quarters in Manhattan. Other books: Midnight Treasure, The Obelisk...
...Dubliners last week Armistice Day was just another unpleasant reminder that Great Britain and the Irish Free State are still parts of the same Empire. They showed their feelings by dynamiting an obelisk on Bray Head erected to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. On Armistice Eve the Irish Republican Army and the Laborites paraded and tiraded through Dublin streets to College Green. There they poured kerosene on two Union Jacks, brandished the blazing banners until only charred staves remained. Leaders howled at the crowd, "Destroy every poppy in Dublin tomorrow and burn every Union Jack and every emblem...