Word: writs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed, familiar ribaldries of this satirist in clay-his grotesquely vivacious figures fully clothed, often painted as well, postured in the more ridiculous attitudes pf contemporary life. These, to be sure, were there, but the prudent, hurrying over them as if they had been jokes in Holy Writ, discovered, in addition, many heads of classic purity, some exquisite busts of children, a big torso in the antique manner. Upon these things lay the lustre of an immemorial beauty that was, assuredly, Classicism. And because he had caught some glimpse of that chaste, magnificent and lonely shape whose massive sandal...
...figures of Generals Lee, Jackson and their armies on Stone Mountain was canceled, how he pounded his models into bits with a hammer, secretly, and fled the state, how he was billed through four states, pursued, arrested in North Carolina on charges of malicious mischief, released on a writ of habeas corpus, has been told (TIME, Mar. 2, Mar. 9). Last week, Borglum little relaxed his activity...
...hours later, by means of a writ of habeas corpus, he got his release, started for Manhattan. Tucker had vanished...
...left his guests in a sitting room and ascended three floors to his bedroom-once he stripped naked-closed the door in the presence of a witness who stood guard while down below three thought tests were writ- ten out and whispered around. The wizard descended. Walter Lippmann, editorial writer on the New York World, thought of "Lord Curzon in the Foreign Office last January." Houdini failed to receive the thought...
...Senator is fond of the Scriptures, devoted to the Holy Writ; and let me say to him he reminds me of a passage, as I consider him in connection with his minority criticisms: 'Deal gently, for my sake, with the young man Absalom...