Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth Avenue, with a fine view of Central Park across the street, sits a 66-room red brick Georgian mansion, one of the largest and most lavish houses in New York City. Across the street, the late Banker Otto Kahn's Florentine stone palace is now the Sacred Heart Convent for girls; a block up Fifth Avenue stands Banker Felix Warburg's six-story home: it is now the Jewish Museum. Farther down Fifth Avenue, workmen this week started tearing down Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan's ornate 30-room mansion...
Across the front and back covers was a Grant Wood painting (Stone City), printed in eight colors on linen. Inside were reproductions, many in fine color, of 389 other photographs, paintings, etchings and woodcuts. They covered everything from Thomas Edison to the oil industry, from Yankee clippers to undergraduate life at Princeton. There were no ads, no "think pieces"; there was a bare minimum of text. Explained 30-year-old Editor Robert K. Heimann: "In thumbing through [other magazines] I've often found myself skipping-the solid reading matter . . ." What text there was in Heritage could be skipped also...
Gootenberg also announced that the HLU had tentatively planned to substitute "Grand Illusion," "The Ghost Goes West," and the "Stone Flower." The spring programs will also feature resumees of football seasons of several past years...
When he finally reached the mountain he sought, Frye had to climb 50 feet up the wall of a cliff to get at the inscription. Clinging to the face of the mountain, he and two native companions took impressions of the stone-writing with squeeze-paper...
...white monkey" chipped away at the stone, glowered at the people, and finally died, still chained. Years later, other white sea monkeys came to Jogjakarta and read what the first one had carved on the rock. In Latin he had written : "Laugh at your own stupidity, but do not laugh at the misfortunes of a poor man." In French, Italian and Dutch he had repeated (soon after Copernicus and before Galileo) a sentence so as to form a circle: "So moves the world...