Word: vane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevented them from running to seed, and in only two generations. Best of the lot, and favorite of old Grandpa Jarrold, was his widowed daughter-in-law, Evelyn. She enjoyed her position, her wealth, her adored son Dan's adoration-even her widowhood, until she met Miles Vane-Merrick. Miles was an aristocratic but land-poor farmer, an Old Etonian but intelligent and unconventional, Member of Parliament but a Laborite. And he fell in love with her though he was young enough to be her nephew. Conventional as only a bourgeoise could be, Evelyn knew she was ruining herself...
Said Bishop Manning: "So far as I can recollect, I know of no such person." But others knew her, including ex-Dean Robbins, to whom she left $350,000 in trust, and Dr. Henry Vane Beams Darlington of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, whither she went from the Cathedral. His church received $25,000 and he $1,000 for burying her. Other friends recalled that she had two prejudices: one against dogs & cats indoors, the other against Friday, the thirteenth. She died Friday...
Appearing, as it did, on the topmost pinnacle of the new Memorial Chapel, without explanation of its form, the gold-leaf plated wind-vane has caused much inquiry, some people even questioning whether it was a fisk's tail surmounted by a harp. It was learned late last night that the vane is in the shape of a penant flying in the wind, and is copied from a medieval lance. The cap topping the mast is made up of two Greek crosses...
When Issai Dobrowen (pronounced Do-bro-vane) sat worshipfully listening to one of the Parsifal performances Arturo Toscanini conducted in Bayreuth last summer, he had no notion that he would ever be invited to conduct Toscanini's New York orchestra. In his 38 years the crinkly-haired, wiry little Russian has gone far. He has conducted in Moscow. Dresden, Berlin, Sofia, Oslo. Last year he was chosen along with British Basil Cameron to succeed hulking Alfred Hertz in San Francisco. Last week it was announced that he would conduct the Philharmonic-Symphony for four weeks next winter, after Toscanini...
Copper and slate will be used to cover the spire, and scrolls and figures in harmony with the staid Colonial architecture will be used in decoration. A large wind-vane, erroneously called a weather vane, will be cut from copper to cap to Chapel...