Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That after Jesus was dead and buried he actually rose from the dead, leaving the tomb empty...
...Music has here entombed a rich treasure but still fairer hopes. Franz Schubert lies here. Born Jan. 31, 1797; died Nov. 19, 1828, thirty-one years old." This, the epitaph on the beloved composer's tomb in Vienna, was quoted last week when Katherine Bacon gave a stirring piano recital of his works in Town Hall, Manhattan. Meanwhile, it was announced that some 500 manuscripts had been submitted for the $20,000 prize contest for orchestral compositions in honor of Franz Schubert, sponsored by the Columbia Phonograph Co. National origins of manuscripts were...
Scores of admirers of General Ulysses Simpson Grant celebrated the 106th anniversary of his birth by visiting his tomb on Riverside Drive, Manhattan. In the main speech of the occasion, National Commander Walter C. Mabie, of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, flayed Mayor James J. Walker of New York for going last month to the unveiling of Georgia's Stone Mountain memorial to General Robert E. Lee, and for appointing small Robert E. Lee IV to the mayoral staff which welcomed the Bremen fliers...
...England, Chilton abounds with relics of its ancient tenancy. Near to the almost perfectly preserved little chapel which Rector Gough discovered last week are the remnants of a Norman Church, built at a much later date and destroyed during the last century. In its foundations there is a tomb upon which travelers may read this somewhat anxious epitaph: "John of Candover lies here. May the good and gracious God have mercy...
...exhibit are five Sargents, including "In the Tyrol", the gift of Sir Joseph Duveen: "A Tomb at Toledo", purchased from the Louise E. Betteus Fund; and "Camping near Lake O'Hara", the gift of the friends of the Fogg Museum. Sargent's oil painting "Lake O'Hara" is also given...