Word: altar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scenery in "Fame and the Poet", however, will stand a few adverse comments. It had no definite character; it added nothing to the picture. There were no specific faults, except the wall cloth in rear of the altar, but the totality seemed rather far from the spirit of the play. The view over the roof tops from the Poet's window was extremely good, and in some measure atoned for the colorless interior. The lighting was good and well managed...
...boom. To be sure this country has amassed a great debt and submitted to heavy taxation; yet its condition is more prosperous than in 1914. However America placed no limit upon her resources when she joined her Allies. Every penny of the nation's wealth was thrown upon the altar; that it was not sacrificed as the wealth of other nations was due to the happy arrival of the armistice...
...Grafton Galleries, London. The original carved frame of an elaborate Gothic design is presented in all its beauty. The picture is signed beneath the figure of the Angel of the Annunciation on a cartellino: Maestre jude Burgos pitor." The picture is made up of two doors of a triptych altar-piece and the figures are painted in temperaon a gold ground punctured with elaborate foliated work...
Would it not be fitting to hold a service in commemoration of these men of the University, who laid all that they had upon the altar of honor? And would it not be both proper and just to give praise at the same time to the Harvard men who have served similarly, and who, though they are yet spared to this life, have striven and are striving for the same ideals of duty and courage...
...their lives in the great cause of humanity by serving either in the ambulance corps or in the regular armies of those countries engaged in the present war, have rendered to humanity a service practically inestimable by us who have remained at home and placed nothing upon the sacrificial altar. But we can, in some measure, show our appreciation for the service they have rendered mankind, their country and their college, by exerting our best efforts to secure for them a memorial service. We little know what they have given, and are yet more incapable of judging. Let us, then...