Word: stonemason
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Father of two children, citizen of Louvain, one Edmond Morren, a master stonemason, stealthily entered the new Library of Louvain just before dawn one morning last week...
Stealthily, last week, and then boldly Citizen Morren of Louvain proceeded to wield a stonemason's pick on the balustrade for 45 minutes, destroying 160 small columns...
Radioed Request. Signor Mussolini, who was carrying bricks as a stonemason's helper when young Austen Chamberlain was Civil Lord of the Admiralty (1895-1900), cabled the British Foreign Office last week his desire for a personal conference with Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. Underlings at the Foreign Office palpitated, scurried. The request of Il Duce del Fascismo was coded, then put on the air by a potent wireless transmitter. The radio operator of Sir Warden Chilcott's yacht Dolphin caught the message, carried it to Sir Austen Chamberlain. He, vacationing in Corsican waters, was soon steaming aboard...
Henri Marcel, waveman: "This month I celebrate, at my estate in the department of Eure, my 74th birthday. Paris papers told how, at 12, I was a stonemason, how I learned" the barber trade because chiseling tired me, how I shaved for two francs and curled for three until one day, in my shop in a slum, a demirep said to me: 'Make my hair curl like the locks extraordinary of your mother.' I was at that time supporting my good maman; her hair was famous in the neighborhood, beautiful auburn hair that nature had twined round...
...expert artilleryman, there may have been some alterations in proportions, some suppression of details in the various gadgets, but to ordinary observers it is a literal copy of the actual gun in stone, much as might have been made by measurement by any competent stonemason. Artistically, it has less than the merit of a child's wooden locomotive, because in that there is simplification determined by the material...