Word: armes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sienese painting represents a half-length figure of the Madonna with her arm around the Child, Who stands at her left. His hand upraised in blessing. In each of the upper corners of the picture may be seen the head and shoulders of an adoring angel. The painting is closely related to the work of Pietro Lorenzetti, one of the three greatest masters of the Sienese School...
...file of men crosses the panel diagonally from upper right to lower left, marching forward until they are almost life-size in the foreground. Alongside the marching column appear the symbolic figures of three women, on an heroic scale, grasping the outstretched hands of the soldiers. In the arms of the foremost, who is dressed in a blue cape and red liberty cap, there lies a slumbering infant. Behind her marches an older figure, her half-veiled face and drooping posture expressive of great sorrow. She bears in one hand a broken sword while her arm is held...
...distressing to those used to the orderly conduct of the hospital ward to have the patient, quietly opiated and under the surveillance of the most illustrious physicians, suddenly jump up, ram his medicine down the doctor's throat and escape, in spite of the organized efforts of the strong-arm squad to detain...
...Sevres which was intended to mark the end of the Turk in Europe,--has been treated most irregularly by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, who from all indications is doing his best to re-carve the boundaries of the Near East to suit his Angora. In the meantime the strong-arm squad,--the Greeks under a recently recrowned and still more recently un-crowned Constantine,--undertook to enforce the provisions of the treaty, feeling the inheritance of Alexander lay within their reach, as legitimate recompense for their efforts in the cause of peace. Severely repulsed, in a way that would have caused...
...last Saturday's contest, moreover, Jefferies, the veteran Tiger pitcher, had been out of the box most of the season with a bad arm and had suffered from a lack of practice. Now, however, he will be in good shape and should be back in his last season's form...