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Time has passed since Mom Hall was dedicated to Harvard men who had fallen in The War Between the States, and many scars have been graven on the memory of the walled patriarch of Harvard...
Versatile in the word for Chaplain Dan A. Laning, instruction in Practical Duties, Army Morale, and Graven Registration. Younger at fifty than most men of thirty, he looks back upon two years and five engagements in the First World War as a member of the 28th Division Field Hospital in France. He enjoys a solid reputation as a composer to topnotch polyphonic religious music, including several motets, a setting for the pontifical processional "Ecce Sacordes Magnus," and a man in honor of St, Jude. No less solid is his reputation as a composer of hit parade ballads, including "Lonesome," which...
Huey Long's children pulled the rope; the flag fell away. In imperishable bronze, one arm upraised, snub features fixed in the grimace of debate, taller by six inches than the Great Commoner beside him, Huey Long took his place among the graven images of the nation...
...radio's big ten were the deftly written serial The Aldrich Family (sixth), the schmalz of Band Leader Kay Kyser (ninth), the soap-opera One Man's Family (tenth). Beating the graven image Charlie McCarthy by a whisker, Jack Benny led the pack for 1940. Others in Crossley's peerage: Fibber McGee & Molly, the Lux Radio Theatre, Bob Hope, Kate Smith, Major Bowes...
...eagle is to the U. S., the quetzal is to Guatemala. The quetzal (rhymes with pretzel) is a rare, lovely bird with bright green plumage, blood-red breast, fuzzy topknot, yard-long tail feathers. Quetzal is also the name of the Guatemalan money unit, and the bird's graven image appears on the national seal, coins, stamps. The quetzal was venerated by the ancient Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayas as a colleague of the plumed serpent god, Quetzalcoatl (rhymes with pretzelcowatle), god of metallurgy, agriculture, wisdom, health. Only priests and nobles could wear quetzal plumes in their headdress...