Word: cecils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the contributors to Monde Libre's first issue were front-page names: France's Herriot, Daladier, Paul-Boncour, Petain; England's Lord Cecil and Winston Churchill; China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; U. S.'s rugged internationalist, Nicholas Murray Butler. Included among the articles on the economic and cultural advantages of peace and democracy were pertinent observations about the efficiency of the U. S. air force, Britain's navy, France's army. Monde Libre will appear quarterly in French and English...
Reynolds shows Lady Cecil Rice, the work painted in 1762, at a time when he was near the peak of his skill. It was only a month before that he had turned out his master portrait, "his perfect Nelly O'Brien." But Lady Rice resembles a very different person, who by the turn and tilt of her head, her sidewise and dreamy look, is distinguished and gentle. Reynolds' subdued colors, the faint blues for her gown, and the gray-greens for the trees and sky, suit her perfectly...
Storm in a Teacup (Sara Allgood, Vivien Leigh, Cecil Parker, Rex Harrison; TIME, April...
Storm in a Teacup (Sara Allgood, Vivien Leigh, Cecil Parker, Rex Harrison; TIME, April...
Born Barney Isaacs in London's Whitechapel, Barnato became a juggler, comedian, boxer, diamond merchant and eventually financial master of the South African mining fields. He was first a rival and then an ally of the imperious, imperialistic Cecil Rhodes. Author Lewinsohn's account makes Barnato out a kindly, comical, shrewd, enterprising fellow whose great achievement was amalgamating scattered mines and who was overshadowed as soon as Rhodes appeared with his bold political adventures and schemes for establishing a diamond monopoly. Sometimes Barnato's democratic traits popped out unexpectedly (when a society lady asked...