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...news sent gold hunters dashing for Oaxaca. Everyone in Mexico knows that Hernando Cortes and his rough Spaniards, although they accumulated shiploads of wrought Indian gold, took only a fraction of the Mexican treasures. Priests and courtiers dumped roomfuls of gold into lakes, pitched them into caverns and crevices, plugged them in tombs. Four centuries of riflings have not found all the caches...
...civic museums was the painstakingly wrought series of wax models showing great incidents in the city's history, scenes of the city as it was: Peter Stuyvesant defying the British, the arrest of Nathan Hale, Bowling Green in 1831, etc., etc. They were the work of Sculptors Dwight Franklin and Ned J. Burns. That the models might be as accurate as humanly possible, a corps of assistants have been studying books, maps and documents for four years. Sculptor Franklin is proud of the fact that his Nathan Hale is much fatter than the famed statue by Daniel Chester French, posed...
...Most of them cannot forget their audiences long enough, cannot help working for effects to the detriment of the musical substance. People well acquainted with the playing of Zimbalist, with Zimbalist himself, might have known that he would not fall into that error. His Daphnis and Chloe was simply wrought, unobtrusively lovely in the way the alto flute introduced the shepherds, then let the cellos and the violins carry them through the ecstasy of the love idyll...
...every contractor knows, cast and wrought iron are many times as rust-resisting as steel, hut they have not the tensile strength necessary for building members...
Happy Hunter. Many excellent things has Dr. Breasted wrought, and his course, too, has been a rising line. In 1894 the University of Berlin had just given him his Ph.D. and he was on pins & needles to get to Egypt. He had just been married, owed his wife a honeymoon. He got the University of Chicago to give him $500 to collect relics and set out full of enthusiasm, no whit deterred by his light purse. With his own money he bought a donkey on which his bride could ride if she grew tired, and set out from Cairo...