Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contradiction of a belief, still fairly current, that any creditable assemblage of early American art is impossible, this exhibition is presented. . . ." Thus, at the opening of the new American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, spoke Robert W. De Forest, President of the Museum, donor of the addition. A notable gathering listened, among them Lawyer Elihu Root, who also spoke. Said he: "We have here a chronicle of American history, more profound and more legible than any that the pen has ever created, for here is the concrete record that our forbears have left, not merely of their...
Hanna, after his appointment to the Senate, served not quite a year, was elected to fill out the short term, elected for the full term. He retained his post as Republican National Chairman, in Roosevelt's time was the leader of the conservative wing of the party, and all in all came as near to being a national political boss as the country has ever seen...
...Super Seaplane for the U. S. Navy. A gigantic flying boat is to be used for long-distance scouting in the Pacific. Appropriately enough, it has been ordered from the Boeing Airplane Co. of Seattle, Wash. Fully loaded, the seaplane weighs 24,000 Ib. It has a span of wing of 87 ft. 6 in., a chord or width of 14 ft., a total area in its biplane wings of 2,400 sq. ft. The sturdy 60-ft. hull, built of the wonderfully light and strong duralumin, is lighter and less liable to soakage than the wooden-hull type...
...effort has been to create in the new wing an atmosphere of intimacy. You are taken as much as possible out of the museum atmosphere. Careful reproductions have been made of rooms of the early periods of American growth. Old newspapers, advertisements, have been studied in the interests of verisimilitude. Fireplaces, furniture, decorations are minutely in harmony. The rooms actually present the illusion of having been lived...
...exterior of the wing has been the result of an ingenuous engineering feat. There stood from 1822 to 1914 one of the most beautiful façades in America-that of the old U. S. Assay office. Business caused its destruction. Art has preserved it. Every stone of the façade was carefully numbered, transported to the museum. It has been reproduced as the South Façade of the American Wing...