Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pumps sent buoyancy to six 40-ton steel pontoons made fast to the submarine 132 feet below. Meanwhile the wind whipped up heavy combers which rolled the ships gayly. In the greysome depths eels and fishes saw the huge barnacled steel whale shift about and sway in her bed like a restive sleeper, start behemothly for the surface. On the reeling decks above workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves and into the sunlight once again. The crews cheered. In another moment the amidships pontoons appeared. It seemed that all that...
...Gabriele's retreat* on the shores of Lago di Garda is a residence of such sumptuous luxuriance as to stagger confirmed sybarites. When the poet who shattered Duse's heart reclines upon the velvet coverings of his fantastic bed, a painting of himself as a leper leers down at him in a manner which he is said to find "exquisite." When the firebrand who seized Fiume strides out upon his lawn, the dreadnaught Puglia, placed there high and dry by the grateful Italian Government, affords him a milieu in which to pace the quarter deck of his extravagant...
...report of a Negro who stood barefoot on red-hot iron with apparent comfort. Dr. McGovern suggested that the Negro might have been an unsuspected leper but at the same time told of having joined in personally on a Shinto ceremony in Japan, where he thrice walked across a bed of blazing coals, to the great detriment of his clothes but without injury to his bare feet which were rubbed with salt...
Once more the river blossomed with gay little boats and with sleek grey or white yachts from whose decks, between races, came sounds of mirth mingled with the tinkling of ice; once more gentlemen slept three in a bed at the Griswold Hotel; once more ladies waved little blue or crimson flags and asked, "Who won?" They should have known that if this race is to remain a classic, the classic result must not be changed. Yale...
...painters has immortalized the beauty of awkwardness, knew what he was talking about. Miss Cassatt could draw. At that time she had not come under Degas' influence but had caught her inspiration from the floating, luminous figures of Correggio. "Maternity," "The Bath," "Mother's Cares," "Breakfast in Bed," "Children Playing with a Cat," are titles that more befit memorial calendars than good paintings. Critics have hinted that Miss Cassatt might have painted better if she had been married; maternity would then have had less fascination for her. This is a shallow suggestion; if she had borne children...