Word: replica
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime Senator Poindexter made remarks: "There are heavy investments of American capital in Peru. ... It is a country of immense natural riches. ... I have some ideas myself as to relief measures for the farmer, but am not prepared just now. . . ." Still in Peru is Mrs. Miles Poindexter, U. S. replica of Margot Asquith, said to have remarked on the occasion of her hus- band's failure to secure re-election in 1922: "Washington voters, like a widely-advertised brand of tires, smile at Miles...
Today and tomorrow the Harvard Dramatic Club presents at private performances at 8 and 9 o'clock the fifth annual Miracle Play against the "Cathedral background of the Germanic Museum," as the official notice phrases it. The cathedral background is the replica of the golden gate of Firebug that stands at the end of the Romanesque Hall and serves as an almost ideal stage for a religious play of this kind...
...that scholarly brotherhood's $100,000 memorial auditorium. Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary of P. B. K.'s united chapters, presented the building to William & Mary College and all soon swarmed through the three-arched brick edifice, admired the fireproof chamber for P. B. K. memorabilia (a replica of the famed Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern, where P. B. K. was founded 150 years ago); the guest rooms, the auditorium, the pictures of the founders of the country's scholastic hierarchy. There was a festive meal with more speakers of distinction: Dr. John H. Finley...
...from a base not far from Holy Name Cathedral (the archiepiscopal seat) is a domed exposition hall where will be placed objects of religious veneration and admiration?relics of saints, holy pictures, chalices of antique manufacture and unique design, vestments worn by prelates who have made Catholic history, a replica of the skin and birchbark chapel where in 1674 Father Jacques Marquette (1637-75) celebrated the first Chicago Mass before a band of Indians, mission artifacts...
Although there are an unusual number of characters, the number of spoken lines is few. This is because of the frequent use of chants set to music. The setting is a replica of the entrance to the Freiberg Cathedral of Saxony, a thirteenth century masterpiece...