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Commercial: the Dorr-Oliver Building in Stamford, Connecticut, with handsome floating sculpture over the main facade. Religious: Temple Reyim in Newton, Massachusetts. Residential: the Beach House of L. W. Spear in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a quasi-Japanese overhanging roof. Public Use: the Wellesley Free Library in Wellesley, Massachusetts...
...became gentlemen heralded by a hawk brandishing a spear, and the motto Non sans Droit (Not Without Right), which Ben Jonson promptly parodied as "Not Without Mustard...
...Expert. Personally responsible for the "general pattern" of this horror, charges the Corfield report, was Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, sixtyish, longtime Kikuyu nationalist leader still under house arrest in a remote Kenya mountain village. A mission-educated nationalist fanatic who spent 17 years in England and Europe, where he made himself an expert in primitive anthropology and published a scholarly work on Kikuyu customs, Kenyatta diabolically parodied the traditional religion of his people in Mau Mau ritual-much as occultists did in the legendary Black Mass. In fact, reports Corfield, Kenyatta's work showed "at least a passing acquaintance...
Some 2,000,000 citizens of the Belgain Congo were in the throes of their first election. Voters did not seem to think that balloting was enough. Spear-carrying Baluba tribesmen chased Luluas through the streets of Léopoldville. One angry group descended on a police post and stoned the cops. In five weeks of electioneering, 57 people were dead...
...Daily Mail. Then Madame Tussaud's put on view a waxworks figure of Tony Armstrong-Jones in a hands-behind-the-back posture that he had borrowed from Prince Philip-who no longer uses it. On top of that, the Royal Academy rejected a portrait by Artist Ruskin Spear called Princess Margaret Catches the Night Train to Balmoral, which was described as a somewhat "satirical caricature...