Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship, such as the "Abraham Lincoln," or an owner or ship's officer. In any case he was shown complete, from ruffled shirt to whiskers. Again, a stubby little mariner sighting with his sextant advertises the shop of an instrument maker; a "Bell in Hand" proclaims a famous Boston tavern. Thus they all had clarity. And as they were made to be painted in colors, they had directness and simplicity of modeling. Those were qualities which the New England carver understood and his sculpture was natural and successful. Others were necessarily imaginative, such as the figure-head for "The White...
...Architects' Emergency Committee, of Manhattan buildings important in the development of U. S. architecture: cupolaed Federal Hall, on whose balcony George Washington took his oath of office as President; the brownstone St. John's Chapel; Hamilton Grange, a typical Manhattan country house of 1800; Fraunces' Tavern, still standing, the headquarters of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York...
...less permanent. When Maurice Baring gave a great birthday party (at which eggs were boiled in Sir Herbert Tree's silk hat and Chesterton fenced with real swords with a gentleman "fortunately" more intoxicated than himself), Shaw left the drunken company "like a 17th Century Puritan leaving a tavern full of Cavaliers." Among other veterans' tales of literary warfare, Chesterton records the story of the great Critic Henley, who got so excited in a controversy over Tolstoy and Ibsen that he hit a brother-critic with his crutch. Corpulent, good-natured Chesterton was too absent-minded...
...hall to glance at the morning paper and surprised to see the quarrelsome Republicans still flay our popular President. How they groan and tear their hair when they think that Mr. Roosevelt will lead the next Congress around by the ears, like a stable-boy at a Scotch tavern. And into my head march the jolly lines of those talented gentlemen, Messers. Gilbert & Sullivan...
...Thurs.--Headquarters, Stoughton 8; refreshments there. Dinner at Tavern Club, Boston at 6.30. Fri.--Headquarters, Stoughton 8; refreshments there...