Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cambridge, March 15--Rumor has it that those worshippers of the Muses who have reached their third year at Harvard will do homage tonight at the shrine of Terpsichorean. The affair will be one of the most exclusive of the year for the younger set. The Jovian officials whose habitat is the classic shades of University Hall have maintained a sphinx-like silence...
...Pennsylvania Ave.?inspiration of patriots, aspiration of statesmen, shrine of all good U. S. citizens?whither Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover of Palo Alto, Calif., will move on Monday? was first called "The President's Palace," then "The President's House." Not until 1814, when it was repainted to hide its British fire scars, did it become "The White House...
Miss Leighton will trace, with many illustrations, the history of the art in Europe, from the days when the pilgrims bought a woodcut as a memento of a saint's shrine, through Durer's illustrations to Revelations, down to its revival in the present times. It has now acquired a wide popularity in England and on the Continent; Miss Leighton hopes to introduce it more widely into America...
...years it has been nearly impossible to secure important Japanese paintings because they are prized by native collectors and not allowed to come to the West. The pair of fourteenth-century shrine doors painted with two Buddhist figures in two colors has therefore peculiar interest to the Museum. The collection of early Chinese Buddhist drawings has also been increased to a full dozen through the gift of Sir Percival David of London, who has recently added three more. Sir Percival has also presented the Museum with a pottery bowl, one of a unique pair, the other of which remains...
...Lord High Chancellor, Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham. For one thing this extremely select wedding was attended by only 60 guests, the press and the public being barred. For another it took place in King Henry VII's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, the most gloriously Gothic and splendid shrine in England. Moreover the license was the first to be issued by the new Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, the Most Reverend Father in God, Cosmo Gordon Lang...