Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The reduction of Governmental expenditures, although always an end to be desired, cannot be carried on forever. With the growth of the country, the expenditures necessary for efficient government will rise not only in total but probably also per capita. When the time comes when expenditures can no longer be...
After painting a dark picture of Germany's immediate past and a rosy canvas of her future, Mr. Houghton, soon to be U.S. Ambassador to Britain (where he will not be allowed to remain silent), proposed a toast to Baron von Maltzan whom he described as "always calm, always...
La Duquesa de Alba, imperially slim, the incarnation of privilege erect against change, looks out of a cloudy canvas. A black mantilla frames her small face; beads hang from her wrist; she holds a fan.
Most famed of all this group that dreamed so long in the Northamptonshire house is Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire. She stands against a marble balustrade, a flight of steps at her feet leading to a formal park. Her dress is cream colored, her coif...
A towel- soggy, bloodstained, ragged-sailed over the top rope of the fight ring in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Sock! it landed on the canvas, right at the heels of a battered little man with a streaming gash over his right eye. The little man was rocking to and fro...