Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Director Pratt was especially excited about a drawing which he is sure is the original study by Hans Holbein the Younger for his famed Progress of Riches, painted after 1532. Another discovery was a set of seven grotesque heads which had been attributed to Holbein. "I'll stake my reputation," said Director Pratt, "that these . . . are the work of Leonardo da Vinci...
...Sanity in Art" school, which was in evidence with scads of wholesome snowscapes, landscapes, seascapes. Of abstract paintings there were only two. Geographical range was all the way from The Ninth Hole, Park Ridge Golf Club to Royal Castle, Sweden, Early Morning. Most puzzling title would have been S. Stake's Chrycenthemen if his canvas had not depicted a recognizable flower...
Great things were at stake: the fate of the President's Court Bill, and equally important, the choice of a majority leader to succeed Senator Robinson. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, choice of the President for the post, and Senator Pat Harrison, backed by most of the veteran Senators and Court Bill opponents, were the rival candidates. Both kept pretty much to their staterooms. But their friends and supporters lobbied all over the train keeping a jealous eye on one another. The Republicans aboard, led by Senators Vandenberg and Bridges, looked on happily. The rest, even Senator La Follette...
...Steck, a Frenchman, and Antonio Hill, a German- weary from months of prospecting, stopped their pack burros near the Piedra Candela settlement in the shadow of the Santa Maria Mountains on the Costa Rican-Panamanian border one day last week, prepared to lay out claims. Driving the first claim-stake, the ground beneath their feet gave way and the trio dropped into an abandoned mine shaft. Before their startled eyes stood 35 gold ingots, each weighing 50 lb., neatly stacked against the wall. Nearby lay equipment for panning gold and relics of the days of the Spanish conquistadors. Stumbling along...
That modern treatment of mental diseases has gone a long way since colonial times is well illustrated by a description of such early methods of treatment as burning at the stake, iron shackles, "Madd-shirts," liberal doses of such drugs as "Spirit of Skull" (moss from the skull of a dead man unburied who had died a violent death). With exclusively mental hospitals limited to two until 1825, mental defectives were auctioned off to farmers, exhibited in cages for a fee, peddled at night from town to town in the hope of losing them. Called incurable until about 1830, insanity...