Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entrance to Leverett House there is an impressive tablet commemorating the Harvard men who fell in the War. In the hall, the other day, a blue-jacketed messenger boy was seen scratching his head in sore perpierity. Stopping one of the men, he queried, "Hey, bud, does Smith live in this here place...
...quiet string music she heard nothing. But the programs were enough gratification as her mind reviewed them. In three days, of the 23 works played, 13 were dedicated to her, five were first performances anywhere, four first in the U. S. On the wall was a new bronze tablet, proclaiming Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge the "fairy godmother of chamber music." The unfamiliar harmonies bewildered many of the Berkshire neighbors but they knew that the tablet was placed where it belonged: it was in Pittsfield. 16 years ago, that Mrs. Coolidge began to concentrate on musical philanthropies...
...waited for him to leave the train, three people fainted from the heat. Later in the day as he spoke to 25,000 people with a sultry thundercloud overhead, the perspiration ran in streams down his dusty cheeks. At Rochester, Minn., when he spoke at the presentation of a tablet to Drs. Charles and William Mayo, some of the spectators thought that the great Mayo Brothers were weeping. Those who stood closer saw that the rivulets upon their faces were not tears but sweat. Several dozen enthusiastic listeners were taken to the hospital with heat strokes, but the President went...
...first U. S. job was carving belt buckles on Civil War monuments in a Boston atelier. He went to Manhattan in 1911, started work under Paul Manship, also a hewer of the heroic. He did the actual carving on the Manship memorial tablet to J. Pierpont Morgan (Metropolitan Museum), worked on the surface texture of Manship's head of John Davison Rockefeller. By the time he left Manship to open a studio of his own he was earning $100 a week, was a naturalized citizen...
Over the barber shop, on the wall against which Student Princip leaned, his fellow townsmen of Sarajevo have erected a handsome plaque: "ON THIS HISTORIC SPOT GAVRILO PRINCIP HERALDED THE ADVENT OF LIBERTY ON ST. VITUS DAY, JUNE 28TH 1914." In the cemetery outside the town is a tablet to "THE HEROES OF ST. VITUS DAY," Shooter Princip, Nedielko Cabrinovic, whose clumsily thrown bomb glanced harmlessly off Archduke Franz Ferdinand's shoulder earlier in the day, and Trifko Grabez who helped Princip and Cabrinovic get their weapons from Serbia...