Word: overlaid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came last week to Thomas Hastings, architect, of the firm of Carrere & Hastings, in Manhattan. In. a crowded memorial chapel, his coffin stood covered by autumn leaves overlaid with roses. Beside it, the Cross of the Legion of Honor lay on a plush cushion. Around it stood Architects Cass Gilbert, William Adams Delano, Chester Holmes Aldrich; Banker Thomas William Lament, Sculptor John Flanagan, many another notable, friend, relation. They sang "Rock of Ages," composed 100 years ago by Architect Hastings' grandfather. Someone recited Shelley's "Ode to a Skylark...
Presumably no vestige of pique at the enforced omission remained in the mind of Esmond Harmsworth, next day, when he accepted for Lord Rothermere a made-in-Hungary automobile with a chassis of re-enforced silver and a body overlaid with hammered gold. The donor, Herr Franz Bert, pioneer Hungarian motor manufacturer, was reported to have spent upon his well-meant if gaudy gift...
...details. The church had apparently been built in the days of Roman occupancy of Great Britain; in it, it seemed probable, St. Augustine had initiated bearded and barbarous tribesmen into fellowship with a kind, mysterious and splendid God. During the lapse of savage centuries, the little church had become overlaid with dust; when found, it was covered 14 feet deep with the refuse of many dreary years...
...Korin, is represented if only in delightful reproduction by a huge black pottery raven leaning forward to caw and by a single painting, more important, perhaps, than anything else in the three rooms. This is a tiny square of paper on which, in blue and gold, is a wave overlaid in spidery characters with that famous poem of the seventh century...
...said the Countess, "my bathtub in Paris is an ancient Greek sarcophagus. It has high relief sculpture and the inside is overlaid with gold. It is an original work which I prize very much. I purchased it in Greece...