Word: urns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last March, with due ceremony, Benefactor Frank presented his streamlined "disaster wagon" to the city. Hordes of Portlanders gaped at its shiny coffee urn, at emergency hospital and surgery paraphernalia, gas masks, water pumps, a two-way radio, portable searchlights, acetylene torches, wrecking tools, respirators, even snowshoes and toboggans for winter rescues...
...Varsity meet will be held on the flat course of approximately four and a quarter miles, starting on the Cambridge side of the river, while the Freshmen will urn the regular course. Both races will finish at Newell Boathouse...
...number of times. Projecting from the third story is an old Philadelphia "busybody," an arrangement of mirrors so she can see who is at the door without opening the window. Nothing in the old house has been changed since her mother died. In the front room there is an urn containing palm leaves from the funeral. In one corner is a large portrait of her mother surrounded by holly wreaths. Before it is a bowl of fresh flowers. She listens to the radio passionately. One day, she is certain, she will be sitting quietly listening and she will suddenly hear...
...fragments showing a battle of Greeks and Amazons from a Roman sarcophagus of the third century A. D. In the remaining spaces are grouped several Attic grave reliefs and a number of heads, notably a wrestler, a Grecian matron, and a woman of Palmyra. Against the window is an urn, a third century lekythos...
...wants $10,000,000 more, is so determined a money-getter that he has become a Pittsburgh legend. He once walked into a meeting of Westinghouse Electric executives, planked a pottery vase down before startled Board Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson, recited Keats's Ode to a Grecian Urn, and walked out with...