Word: arched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of love in a tomb in ancient Egypt, is famous for its triumphal march. "Toot-toot-toot", go the horns, and everyone is thrilled. Hitherto this procession has passed under one arch; in Gatti's new scenery the procession has four arches, each of dazzling splendor...
Degrees are studied for and taken optionally in sequence, depending on a favorable ballot of those already accepted. As progress is made up- wards, the number accepted decreases rapidly. The four chief classes of degrees: "Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch," " Mark Grand Lodge," "Great Priory of Knights Templars," "Ancient and Accepted Rite." These are mutually complementary...
Corfu. The receipt of the Greek note in Italy fanned the public temper to white heat. Numerous violent actions against Greeks occurred from one end of Italy to the other. The Italian Government, which had previously mobilized the fleet at Taranto (in the arch of the Italian boot) refused to accept the Greek reply and ordered its men-of-war to Corfu, a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, west of Greece. On arrival, an Italian naval captain was sent ashore to demand the surrender of the town of Corfu. The Greek Governor stated that he would ask for instructions...
Accordingly A. R. Gates of Chicago, co-donor of the trophy for the world's championship toque tournament, has suggested a balkline game. He would draw a twelve-inch circle around each arch and stake within which no ball is eligible to advancement for the point. Roque players throughout the country are enormously excited over the suggested innovation. Apparently roque, as the present generation has known and loved it, must shuffle into discard...
Joseph Pennell, etcher extraordinary, confidant and biographer of Whistler, American by birth, cosmopolite by choice, arch-enemy of democracy and materialism, damned the "standardized product" of the London Royal College of Arts, in a letter to The New York Times. The reason why we have no national art school in America is "because the Government of this country takes no interest in art. We have no minister, no department of art. ... In fact, we have no art of our own to speak of, and don't really know how properly to steal that of other countries. How long will...