Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incident closed when Father Tacchi-Venturi's neck was neatly bound up at the Santo Spirito Hospital. Later, seated in an armchair, he received a visit of condolence from Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, suave Papal Secretary of State...
...party moods, the Secretaries did not much resemble the men they are during their working hours. Lately (a month ago) the Secretaries left their desks and followed their leader out to the White House lawn. Beside one of the gravelled paths, six chairs were arranged-five straightbacks and one armchair-for picture-taking. President Coolidge, in one of his new grey double-breasted suits, sat in the armchair, motioning short, white-haired Secretary Frank Billings Kellogg to his right side. In the end chair on that side, well-built, well-dressed, young-looking Secretary of War Davis sat. Secretary Andrew...
...lady in Study of My Mother is sitting in an armchair by a window through whose heavy curtains only enough light soaks to touch the hands that lean against her steep lap. Her severe face makes her thought a secret. Maybe she is thinking about God, maybe she is wondering what time it is. But her eyes are looking at something through the dark room beyond its darkness...
Rembrandt painted it late in his life when he was fast growing blind. It was a portrait of his son, "Titus in an Armchair," smiling faintly out of a dull background. Last week a few U. S. art merchants and connoisseurs fought for it at auction at the American Art Galleries, Manhattan. Somebody began the bidding at $50,000. Competitors nodded their heads. Each nod sent the price up another $10,000. Near the end, nods were only worth $1,000 apiece. Sir Joseph Duveen, semi-Semitic, ornate dealer and art authority, as might well be guessed, nodded last. "Titus...
...excellent fare, is at any rate a leisurely and companiable occasion. But is is not the fortune of everyone to be either a Kiwanian or a Rotarian and therefore the non-fraternal portion of America is left with a cup of coffee, a sandwich, and a tin plated armchair. The Forum author endeavors to solve the enigma. "To me our main difficulty seems to be a failure to make a distinction between the two words gourmand and gourmet. When we cease to regard eating as something to be done purely out of habit, finding in it instead untold aesthetic delights...