Word: colloquy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...billowing, vehement, satiric canvases of Zuloaga; the sales had reached a huge sum. Fewer sales, fewer observers attended the Bellows exhibit. At the announcement of Zuloaga's gift, U. S. friends and artists talked among themselves. Zuloaga, they knew, had only twice met Bellows. Such phrases of their colloquy as "ill-advised," "condescension," "poor taste," "advertisement" were permitted, not unintentionally, to come to the ears of Zuloaga. Last week, his offer was withdrawn...
...debate over the reports brought a sharp colloquy...
...colloquy followed with a reporter...
...Georgia Hamon Rohrer, widow of Jake L. Hamon, oil man who was supposed to have had a hand in the nomination of Mr. Harding in 1920. She traveled from Chicago at the public expense and entered the witness stand carrying a large calla lily in her hand. A colloquy ensued...
Poets Keep on Publishing Books HARMONIUM - Wallace Stevens - Knopf ($2.00) matches its odd, bright cover. The titles of the poems show the mood, Peter Quince at the Clavier, The Comedian as the Letter C, Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion, Colloquy with a Polish Aunt, "princox, citherns, toucans, gasconade." Intellectual gymnastics, the tight-lipped playfulness of a strange imagination, sonatas for the piccolo-much that is merely sterile grotesquery - occasionally individual beauty, unfashionably arrayed but genuine-half-a-dozen or a dozen poems, firm-fibred, original, distinguished, ensuring for Mr. Stevens a small but positive niche in the imaginary Valhalla...