Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago as an art student in Pans Grant Wood affected a flaming pair of pink whiskers and a béret basque. As the Rembrandt of Iowa and Director of the Stone City art colony, Artist Wood now works in blue denim overalls...
...next venture was establishing a summer school and art colony at Stone City in an impressively colonnaded mansion, relic of the days when Stone City's abandoned limestone quarries brought the town brief prosperity. Stone City's art school quickly became known as the Ice-Wagon Art Colony. So many pupils enrolled for the course that every bedroom in the village was taken. Inventive pupils found a stable of 14 abandoned ice wagons, dragged them to a meadow, fitted them up as gypsy caravans, painted the sides with gaudy murals. From miles around the farmers went to gape...
...Shean, 2b. 4 2 2 2 1 1 Colwell, c. 0 0 0 6 1 1 Allen, 1b. 2 0 0 8 0 0 Pope, l.f., 3 0 1 1 0 0 Roberts, ss. 4 0 0 1 2 1 Doyle, rf. 4 1 1 1 0 0 Stone, p. 0 0 0 0 1 0 *Lee 1 0 0 0 0 0 Ross, P. 1 0 0 0 1 1 Gay, P. 1 0 0 1 1 0 Totals 27 4 5 21 12 5 *Batted for Stone in the third. Newton High School...
...Stones; Shoes; Strikes. Jerome Herman Dean was born in Holdenville, Okla. in 1911. His father was an impoverished junkman and cotton picker. His mother died when he was 4. Jerome Dean began pitching to his brother, two years his junior, with a ball made out of yarn wrapped around a stone. He threw stones at squirrels until his aim was deadly. By the time he was 12, he was invited to pitch for the baseball team of a nearby high school which, because he had left grammar school after the fourth grade, he was too ignorant to attend...
...President McKinley for Adams, Mass, and Dayton, Ohio; Columbus for Manhattan; Daniel Boone for Paris, Ky.; Jefferson Davis for Washington and Lexington, Ky.); of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1925, after the ousting of Gutzon Borglum, Virginia-born Sculptor Lukeman was called in to complete the Confederate Memorial on Stone Mountain, Ga., produced an equestrian group which was unveiled in 1928. Work has since been suspended for lack of funds...