Word: crowninshield
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...lobby stood a huge wrought-iron war god. Elsewhere in the galleries were war masks, chieftains' stools, wooden idols, ivory headrests, bowls, swords, fly whisks, amulets, statues and fertility fetishes belonging to Frank Crowninshield, Henri Matisse, A. Conger Goodyear, Helena Rubinstein, Paul Guillaume, Sir Michael Sadler, and 65 other collectors. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was last week opening the largest, most carefully chosen and most important loan exhibition of African Negro sculpture the U. S. has ever seen...
...pachyderm arrived as the result of a little speculative adventure on the part of Captain Jacob Crowninshield, of the Salem family of Crowninshields, who bought it at a bargain sale in Bengal for $450, only to sell it the minute it walked off the pier in New York...
...Crowninshield Scholarships, founded in 1877, by Francis Boardman Crowninshield were awarded to Henry Michael Adlis, of Lynn, Howard Alexander Cook, of New York City, Robert William Furlong, of West Roxbury, and Dean Nevin Shaffner, of Waverley...
...year he played pinochle every Sunday night with Instructor Wilson. Last week, as George Archambeau went about his dusting, he gave a proud extra flick to a new bust in the Fogg entrance hall. It was himself, modeled during pinochle evenings, now set up vis-a-vis to William Crowninshield Endicott...
Miltiades spends his money fast. "If I have money I think I ought to do beautiful things with it. He opens a department store, buys an estate. He proposes marriage to Drusilla Crowninshield. an old flame of his, marries her daughter Sydna instead. Drusilla knows him of old: "You really are an outrageous man. . . . You appear to people who don't know you as a most conventional man. but you really stick at nothing and regret little...