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...only a hugely chipped General Lee, almost insulting in its immense ineptitude. "In 17 months," he declared, "Mr. Borglum produced the first model, all working models necessary to that date, removed 25,000 tons of granite, erected the hoisting engine, built the studio, installed the projecting lens, built the stairway, completed the head of General Jackson, roughing out the head of President Davis ... at a cost of $118,822.61. Mr. Lukeman in 40 months has completed his model and cut the bust of General Lee at a cost of $1,421,665." Mr. Venable referred doubters to the audits...
...midnight they came. Youssoupov was admitted by the servants' stairway. He embraced my father, crying: 'Ah, my dear friend,' and took him away...
Clarence Hungerford Mackay, telegraph-cable tycoon, was ordered by the Supreme Court of New York to pay $1,000 to his onetime secretary, Miss Catherine McCabe. She had fallen down stairs in Mr. Mackay's office building at 20 Broad Street, Manhattan, in 1923, sprained her ankle. The stairway was dark at the time; hence, the damages...
...Cabin advertisement which is illustrated by a page of photographs of "life at sea". Much trouble was evidently taken and the photographs and their grouping are wholly in the bur lesque spirit from the shuffle board game with pie pans to the representation of Lady Montbatten ascending the grand stairway of the New Amsterdam third class port holes in the background...
Abram Poole's portrait of Katharine Cornell was hung near the top of the main stairway, so that nearly everyone looked at it once when they came in and a second time when they went out. The first scrutiny was the more satisfactory. Artist Poole had put the actress against a dark background, wrapped her in a black cape, painted her hands brown, thin and nervous. Her face looked out from all this gloom with the terror of a child's half-dream in the dark. Nonetheless, the characterization was too taut and theatrical...