Word: sainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mussolini might have gone on to remark that the Bridge of Sighs would still be audible, and that no gasoline fumes would make the lions of Saint Marks sneeze, but the chose instead to draw inspiration from the petition. "As the appeal justly says" (and Mussolini repeats it) "There are some things so holy that no material gain can justify their sacrifice...
With Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, scheduled for speedy demolition, artists, architects pondered on what could be done with Diana, Roman huntress by Saint-Gaudens, who, upon a Moorish tower by Stanford White, long adorned the summit of the famed hippodrome. After 56 conflicting proposals, it was last week decided to remove statue, tower, to New York University. Lawyer Elihu Root agreed to head a committee to raise funds for the transfer; architects McKim, Mead & White were appointed for the work...
...Jota Stoessel-Jacchia 4. Fantasia, "Fedora" Glordano 5. Twelfth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt 6. Rachem (Invocation) Manna-Zucca (Orchestrated by A. Jacchia) 7. Scherzo, "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" Rimsky-Korsakov 8. Ouverture Soiennelle "1812" Tchaikovsky 9. Selection, "Carmen" Bizet 10. Valse Triste Sibelius 11. French Military March Saint-Saens...
Heywood Broun-"The man who wrote Saint Joan can now condescend a little to the author of Caesar and Cleopatra . . . much slipshodery in the first night performance...
...Museum contains such interesting relics as Napoleon's* riding whip, a lock of his hair, the red ribbon of the Order worn by him the day of the Battle of Waterloo; the oriflammed mantle of the Ordre de Saint Esprit (Order of the Holy Ghost) worn by the Kings of France; the chain of the same Order worn by Louis...