Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gainsborough portraits, a Handel duet on the table; one of 1815 designed to reproduce the character of a sitting- room of the Becky Sharp-Waterloo period; the 1852 room of the now so fashionable mid-Victorian era is the most amusing, every available inch strenuously decorated-that great age when even ladies were upholstered; the 1888 room is all preRaphaelite, with the arts, crafts and esthetics of William Morris, Holman Hunt and deMorgan pottery; ending up with two modern rooms, not too successful, particularly in the dining-room, a product of that hokum theory that if you use enough color...
...brush and able to receive many visitors in her small house in Chelsea's art colony, she recalls the guns saluting the coronation of Queen Victoria when she was a child of six, the assistance offered her by Wilkie Collins on the occasion of her elopement at the age of 16 with E. M. Ward, R.A., also an artist, her stay at Windsor Castle in 1857 when she was commissioned to paint the portrait of the infant Princess Beatrice. The great painters of the mid-Victorian days she knew as young men-Millais, Leighton, Alma-Tadema, and among...
...great age of some of New England's family-owned industries has been often remarked. The passing of the "Benedict's Shoe Store" in recent weeks terminates a business which has been in the hands of the Benedict family of New Canaan, Conn., for 162 years. The business was started some time prior to 1762-the date of the first ledger entry on the Company's books-by one James Benedict, who started a shoe factory at New Canaan. Soon the "cordwainers" of New Canaan became nationally known for their fine products, and sold largely...
...only with her white arms, but with all her will, crying softly: 'Don't, Tony! Oh don't, dear boy!' But she was a gardenia, soft and lush and pale-not a very suitable flower when it came to resistance. She thought of her age, and of her husband's: Tony was young- fresh, strong, familiar young arms- clean, rugged young face-hot misguided youth!-It was too much for her. Sobbing under her breath, and half opening her thin lips, she pressed him against her as fiercely as she had pushed him away...
...that is longer than his grasp. BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK - Excellent foolery, in which the worm of music turns on big business. THE SHOW-OFF-A highly ticklesome comedy, turning bombast into a fine art. MEET THE WIFE-Two husbands of a flighty wife learning the rueful answer to the age-old question: "Who's boss around here?" THE POTTERS-An American genre study of amusing quality, with oil as the villain. CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden superbly proving that there's no fool like a gallant French fool. FATA MORGANA - An atmospheric, sporty Hungarian comedy in which...