Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solid Reality. Joseph Arthur Rank is a burly grandfather's-clock of a man, at 59 tick-tock solemn and sure, and rather bumblingly humorous when wound up. He stands 6 ft. 1 in. with his limp brown hair stuck down flat, and bulks a solid 15 stone (210 lbs.). He resembles General de Gaulle, except that he does not share the look of a supercilious camel. His great tired nose droops even lower than De Gaulle's. It curls under just in time to disclose an uncertain mustachelet which changes position with each shave...
...wife, standing and gazing. There was John sitting with Sarah; there was John sitting beside an empty marble chair (which bore an engraved inscription: "The Vacant Chair"). There was John kneeling on his wife's grave and Sarah, equipped with a set of wings, kneeling with a stone bouquet in one hand on the spot he had reserved for himself...
That wasn't all. John also set up urns and a fancy granite stone which was inscribed: "Kindly Keep Off the Memorial." Then he surrounded the whole business with a four-foot marble wall-he didn't want strangers' children...
...months ago, U.N. had vaguely assented to a suggestion that a piece of Plymouth Rock be used as a cornerstone for U.N.'s new skyscraper headquarters along Manhattan's East River. Last week came the alarming news that the stone was on its way. But it was not really a chip off Plymouth Rock at all-just an ordinary boulder from Yarmouth, Mass. It weighed 15 tons...
...years ago, prospering Watercolorist Dehn had a yen to go back to his crayons and litho stone. Last week the 60 lithographs he had finished in his spare moments were on exhibit at a Manhattan gallery. A good many of them were in his old vein: New Yorkerish jibes at solemn nuns, nightclubbers & dilettantes. But most gallerygoers preferred his Minnesota farmyards and Colorado mountain landscapes. In them, Dehn proved once again that he knows how to give black the coolness and weight of real shadows, and how to make white blaze and sparkle the way light does...