Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...erect a replica of Mount Vernon in Bryant Park. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art removed from its walls to the basement Emanuel Leutze's painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, popular clamor compelled it to lug the massive picture up again for temporary hanging in its American Wing...
Rare are sewer accidents like John Debo's. In 1929 in Manhattan an 8-year-old boy, playing carelessly about subway construction in East 53rd Street, tumbled into a sewer flowing to the East River three blocks away. Hearing the alarm, members of the Red Wing Boat Club, famed for its corpse recoveries, scurried to the sewer outlet at 49th Street, yanked the blubbering moppet out alive as he was being poured into the river...
...happiest hours Mr. Roosevelt passes at Hyde Park in the house his father bought in 1866 and in which he was born. It is old and colonial. Its clapboard sides have been stuccoed and a stone wing added. French windows look down over a mile of virgin timber through which tumbles a cascade to the river. The estate covers 1,000 acres. Here live or visit his five children, of whom Son Elliott was married last month. Here Mrs. Roosevelt, able, active and animated, runs the Val-Kill shops, where workmen make reproductions of early American furniture by hand. Here...
...Biological Institute, will be used by the department of Geology for laboratory work and additional offices. The South end of the fifth floor of the Museum, now used by the department of Geology, will be used by the department of Anthropology, which at present occupies only the Southeast wing of the building. The renovated section of the museum to be used by the department of Geology will make possible the consolidation of all the laboratory work in Geology 4 and Geology 5, which is now being carried on in different sections of the South end of the building. It will...
That the Wartime Secretary of the Treasury, irked with the law, has been getting more and more political has been fairly obvious for some time. A rampant Dry out of step with the dominant eastern wing of his party, he has, it is said, reconciled himself to the fact that he has no chance for the Presidency. Late last year he published his autobiography (Crowded Years) which contained some political explosives and, in telling the story of an unparalleled career, again attracted attention to the almost forgotten name of McAdoo. Then last month the students of Southern Methodist University...