Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glowing colors, and had printed a verse supposed to be peculiarly fitted to your own temperament. I think that Mr. Cox came to believe that there was something mystical about a Brownie. Perhaps there was. I can remember spending hours as a child curled in a huge red armchair with bound volumes of St. Nicholas, reveling in the pranks of the Brownies, the Indian, the policeman, the sailor, Uncle Sam. What a strange contrast, to be sure, were these tiny beings, to the massive Mr. Cox, who was six feet two, broad-shouldered, lumbering, powerful. When...
Says Matisse: "What I dream is an art of balance, of purity, of tranquillity . . . which shall be ... something comparable to a friendly armchair...
...Cambridge American", shrieked the urchins; and a boisterous guffaw rattled the windows of the Sanctum as the college read and laughed. Lampy hung his head and slunk into the coziest armchair. "Quizzes?" sighed the Ibis...
...opposition to the Steinach operation comes almost invariably from "armchair" theorists who have never seen a patient who has undergone it. The facts are being accumulated by practicing surgeons...
...portrait by Rembrandt was yesterday placed on exhibition in the main room on the second floor of the Fogg Art Museum, where it will remain only a short time. It is dated 1643 and represents an old lady seated in an armchair holding a book. The concensus of expert critical opinion holds that this portrait is one of the finest Rembrandts in this country...