Word: bells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After lunch the King wanted a smoke badly, but could not light up, according to the protocol that rules his conduct until he had been toasted. The Prime Minister tapped a bell, and, in Veuve Cliquot '28 the guests toasted first the King then the Queen, then both. Then the King lit up before a waiter could get to him with a match (the Queen does not smoke in public), and listened while Prime Minister King reminded the diners: "Today as never before, the throne has become the centre of our national life." Stammering slightly His Majesty spoke...
...escort of Princess Louise Dragoons in scarlet tunics and brass hats, and a landau with two postillions and two footmen-something dug out and refurbished from the Governor General's livery stable. A London-like overcast cloaked the scene, and from the Houses of Parliament sounded a bell that looked and rang like...
From the Morgan treasures, energetic Librarian Bell da Costa Greene put on show eye-catching examples in all the fields in which the Library is preeminent. Oij view was a Gutenberg Bible, one of the first printed with movable type (see p. 30). There were some 60 illuminated books and manuscripts, opulent and glowing psalters, gospels, books of hours. There were a series of Rembrandt etchings, some prints showing the development of the mezzotint, many a print and drawing by the great masters. There were letters and manuscripts galore-Milton, Cromwell, Swift, Dickens, Kipling...
...Yale team on Saturday, May 27, will be decided tomorrow afternoon when the two teams tied for first place, Lowell and Adams, meet in a post-season game. Charley Lutz will take the mound for the Gold Cosstoers while Dick Story will hurl for the Lowell team. The Bell boys are pinning their offensive hopes on slugging Joepy Lyford, the League's outstanding hitter...
...must have opportunities to see "more popular art, more which is unimportant to the universe but important to the individual; for art can be second-rate, yet genuine." The answer to this plea found in Clive Bell's book called "Art" is perhaps unconsciously embodied in the collection of New England Genre Paintings now on exhibit in Fogg Museum. Although these paintings presented by the Museum Class cannot be placed under the heading of great or profoundly significant art, they contain a warmth and a source of satisfaction which can only be attributed to the presence of sincere feeling...