Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second time in the Institute's history no artists were on the jury of award. Four museum directors-Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens of Pittsburgh, Robert Bartholow Harshe of Chicago, Cuthbert Powell Minnigerode of Washington, Meyric R. Rogers of St. Louis-distributed $3,300 in prizes, as usual had their decisions loudly challenged by art critics...
...Venerated as a Defender of the Faith, King Charles has often been regarded as a Church of England saint. Some years ago the Holy Cross monks (Episcopal) in St. Andrews, Tenn., held a service in which a hair from King Charles's beard was exhibited on a pillow. The Chronicle called it a "hirsute comedy...
...traditions of American politics, Messrs, Laguardia, McKee, and O'Brien are hard at work in Manhattan tossing vehement accusations and rancid remarks at each other in well-meaning efforts to show John Public that at the polls he will have a choice between two hellers and one saint, the labels varying according to the speaker. O'Brien is busy pleading for fair play and no quotations; Laguardia occupies himself in smearing his two opponents with the same Tammany brush; and McKee spends his time replying to Judge Seabury's attacks. This is all according to Tweed; but Holy Joe McKee...
That the figure of the saint either baptizing or blessing the figures in front of him is an archbishop is attested by his pall. Therefore it might be St. Dunston or St. Alphage, both of whom are represented in Canterbury Cathedral by a series of scenes from their lives. However, this too, seems to be an incorrect supposition, as dimensions of the Fogg Museum roundell are considerably smaller that those of the St. Dunston and St. Alphage windows which remain, or the original irons of them...
...notorious Equitable Bus franchise deal, a flagrant piece of grafting which did more than anything else to oust Mayor Walker (TIME, June 6, 1932), McKee did later vote for the franchise to be granted. "Actions," taunted Candidate LaGuardia, "speak louder than words." At this point Samuel Seabury, patron saint of Fusion, chimed in: "They're mak-ing a primary out of an election. Fusion nominated a ticket so good and so strong that its mere nominations caused the Curry machine to crumble and broke Tammany's back. What happened then? They changed the name of the Tammany candidate...