Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chatham cottage on Cape Cod. Mr. Justice Cardozo was sunning himself at Rye, N. Y. Mr. Justice Butler was golfing at Bluemont, Va. Mr. Justice Roberts was on his 700-acre farm near Kimberton, Pa. Mr. Justice Sutherland was on his 24th trip to Europe. Mr. Justice Stone loafed at his favorite island near Isle au Haut, Me. And Mr. Justice McReynolds, visiting a friend at Gloucester, Mass., gave an interview to the Beverly Times about the Constitution...
...rogue's gallery, on his office wall, several ex-convicts and the notorious Gaston B. Means wormed their way on to the Bureau's rolls. Such was the sloppy and demoralized agency which, in the scandalous spring of 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was handed by Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone, who had just succeeded Harry Micajah Daugherty, besmirched Harding crony...
Among the savage Loeboes of Sumatra a child fell ill. When it failed to improve, the muttering family repaired to a stone beneath the house which seemed to mark a grave, poured hot water on the stone. A European observer who witnessed this ceremony inquired its significance. The natives told him that the stone marked the place where the child's afterbirth had been buried in a rice pot a few months before, that the baby's continued illness was obviously due to the fact that ants were stinging the afterbirth, that the hot water would drive...
...Sculptor Aitken put the faces of Chief Justice Hughes, William Howard Taft, John Marshall (as a boy), Architect Cass Gilbert and himself. The brothers' business boomed. The red brick house grew to a 20-room catacomb of high-ceilinged workshops, spare of furniture, full of great lumps of stone, clay, plaster. One piece, a huge statue of James Monroe, ordered and paid for by a Venezuelan President who lost his job unexpectedly, stood around for 30 years until the Piccirillis gave it to the State of Virginia. On another piece the Christian Science Church paid 20 years' storage...
Though the Piccirillis usually work together as "stone-masters," Attilio stands head and shoulders above his brothers as an individual artist. A classical conformist, he is a master of the human form. His figures have an impressive, if somewhat posed, nobility, and they are simply conceived and carried out. He designed Manhattan's imposing Maine Monument at Columbus Circle, its Firemen's Memorial on Riverside Drive, notable for its expressive woman & child group. One of his best works is the pediment on the Frick house in Manhattan, a poetic and satisfying solution of the problem of putting...