Word: archangelic
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...four years, on and off, to paint. The model who posed for it would not have been everyone's cup of tea. She had a stocky figure, long-limbed and healthy looking, but no grace or elegance. It was an arduous pose, and she behaved like an archangel though she ached like the devil afterwards...
...chosen to solve the problem was Gian Lorenzo Bernini, foremost sculptor of his day, who in 1655 began erecting his immense colonnades-inspired, so it was said, by the vision of a form that would appear as a mighty archangel, with outspread, welcoming arms coming out of the body of the church. To round out his grand plan, Bernini placed 140 statues of saints, each 12 ft. in height, around the rim. With its two fountains, each 45 ft. high, and its center fixed by the massive, 320-ton obelisk that Emperor Caligula had brought from Heliopolis. the finished square...
...Michael Strange in her spare-time incarnations as poet and author. It was in Carder's, where she was trading her diamond tiara for a rope of matched pearls, that she met Actor John Barrymore-"the most beautiful man that ever lived," said she, "like a young archangel." But their unangelic love affair was like "a tennis match in Hell." More than three years later, Blanche Thomas, defying the warning cries of her friends and the exigencies of the Social Register, divorced her husband, Leonard Thomas, and married her archangel...
Died. Dr. Otto Yulievich Schmidt, 64, tall, stoop-shouldered Russian explorer, who led the first expedition to sail the ice-clogged passage from Archangel to the Bering Strait in one season (1932); after long illness; in Moscow...
...tended a countess who thought she was a dog and ate from a plate in the center of the floor, a onetime abbess whose chief quirk was to wear a brown-paper bag on her head night and day, and a dementia praecox case who thought she was the Archangel Gabriel and nearly succeeded in strangling Gabrielle to death...