Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five Piccirilli brothers of The Bronx are the world's greatest team of sculptors. But, like the Pisani of the 13th Century, they prefer to think of themselves as "masters of stone." As such, they make most of their money anonymously converting into their own Italian marble the clay and plaster models of less handy and sometimes more famed U. S. sculptors. Last week, for probably the first time in Piccirilli history, someone else had the job of executing work by a Piccirilli...
...Piccirillis are the Bronx climax of a distinguished family of Tuscans who, originally from Spain, worked in stone for two centuries around Carrara and Massa between the mountains and the sea, fought with Garibaldi and emigrated to Manhattan...
...March the two Negroes' feet were puffy, greyish-purplish clumps of gangrenous flesh and they both would now have been stone dead if a Raleigh surgeon had not amputated their four limbs halfway to the knees. In the Charlotte court house last week these stumps were Exhibits A, B, C and D in the State's case of criminal cruelty against Captain H. C. Little of the convict camp, three of his guards and Dr. C. S. McLaughlin, camp physician...
Crash! The motor car of the Chancellor of Austria and Frau Schuschnigg hurtled into a tree near Linz last week. She was instantly killed, her neck broken. He was flung on soft earth, missing a kilometer stone by a finger's length. The portly Schuschnigg nurse rolled over & over, clutching safely to her breast the Chancellor's 9-year-old son Kurt...
...Frankfort, Ky., was president of the "Whiskey Trust" for twelve years. Famed Bradley brands: Old Crow, Old Hermitage. No less famed was the Bradley mansion in Washington, with its 500-seat theatre, known as Aladdin's Palace. Tiring of Washington, Distiller Bradley had his home moved stone by stone to Newport...