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...illumination from its great period of Chinese and Mongol influence in the 13th Century to its degeneration at the end of the 17th Century. It gave gallery-goers some understanding of the feeling that prompted the 15th Century Shah Ismail to lock his favorite miniature painter Behzad in a cave before going to war with the Turks; that made Persian merchants value one line of perfect script at one gold bar of the same size, one miniature, at one ruby...
Warm winds whispered through the pale night, and moonbeams shimmered mockingly over the ancient stones of the nunnery. Inside slept Chastity like a drift of snow in a cave in summer. Behind the grilled window of a tower chamber in candle burned. A young friar saw it and smiled as he walked up and down in the walled-in garden of the nunnery. The wan night air, fragrant with the scent of flowers, caressed him. Old repressions and half-forgotten dusty dont's quickened his pleasure in the escapade. If one could only catch this fragile essence and then only...
...clean through, hot-footing to the White House. Hastily Mr. Ickes announced: "I did not authorize it. I would not have authorized it. I did not know it was given out until I was told over long distance telephone in New York there had been an escape from the cave of winds...
Died. Whitefoord Russell Cole, 60. president of Louisville & Nashville R. R.; of acute indigestion; near Cave City, Ky., in his private car in which he was returning on one of his road's crack trains to his home in Louisville...
...until the President had a mind to go tiger hunting in the East and chanced to read Grew's account of the subject did Grew get his first break in the Service. Any young man who could crawl single-handed into a cave and dispose of a tiger, Teddy Roosevelt decided, deserved promotion. One of Grew's best jobs was done in Germany just before the War, shooting pheasants with the ebullient Kaiser and deftly restraining his own ebullient chief, Ambassador James W. Gerard...