Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, one fact opens a narrow path to Royalty between Scylla and Charybdis, namely that slightly more than half the population of the United Kingdom do not belong to the Church of England. It is this majority which (although its individual leaders are less potent than those in the State Church), is probably strong enough to maintain the Sovereign in suspended straddle, until the abyss beneath him closes through conciliation, or is replaced by some such new order of things as disestablishment of the State Church by Parliament...
...Buddhist paintings, with three exceptions, do not belong to the Hoyt collection, and of course are not as important as those to be found in the Boston Museum, which are the best outside the Orient. But these are of very real and decorative value. The Nirvana of the Buddha, half obliterated as it is, contains some splendid passages of color and most vivid drawings of the animals that mourn about the death couch...
...opinion of Charles Durham, restorer of works of art, who is associated with the new Fogg Art Museum, the many paintings of John Singer Sargent which now belong to Harvard and in fact the very large majority of all his works are in little danger of the early disintegration promised them according to D. V. Thompson Jr. '22, Instructor in Art at Yale...
...wealth of a century and a half ago, the merchants who sat in the Tontine Coffee House from whose windows they could see the harbor and their ships. Anyone who saw him walking down Broad Street would realize immediately that such dignity and serene confidence could belong only to a bank policeman or its director. The picture of Myron Taylor that was published in news-sheets last week seemed to belong between the two older faces that appeared at the same time. Supported by the crisp ruff of a wing tipped collar, severe, shrewd, plain and kindly...
These moments belong mostly to Swedish Greta Garbo whose beauty infuses the picture with a cold white glow; John Gilbert as Vronsky is too frequently exposed to a highly approximate lens, he is too willing to act only with his teeth or his hair, to duplicate the excellence of his performance in The Big Parade. But his inadequacies are minor and partly made evident by contrast. Good handling of minor parts by George Fawcett, Brandon Hurst, Emily Fitzroy and Philippe de Lacy, intelligent photography, brilliant direction are enough for any picture that includes such a performance as that supplied...