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...posies of one's carriage horses." In 1914 she became Vogue's editor. She gets to work around 10 a.m., Mondays through Fridays, leaves about 6. An admirer of things transatlantic, she is largely responsible for Vogue's British spellings of such words as "pyjamas" and "colour...
Part of a six-section exhibition, the works of these men include, among others, Sargent's "Arras Cathedral, "Garden of Florence," the water colour "Terminal State," Hassam's "General Andrew Jackson," "World's Fair, Chicago 1892," "Old Dutch Church, Fishkill," and La Farge's "Samoa," and "Turn of the Screw...
...stood alone, magnificent in sharp austerity of cliff and pyramid: it is called 'the witness of God.' " Author West and her friends arrived at the Sheep's Field by car. "When we got out we were so near the rock that we could see its colour. It was a flat-topped rock . . . rising to something like six feet above the ground, and it was red-brown and gleaming, for it was entirely covered with the blood of the beasts that had been sacrificed on it during the night. . . . The colour of spilt blood is not properly...
...landlord, who ran a draper's shop at the sign of Il Corno (the horn), soon changed by his apprentices into II Corno Inglese (horns by Byron). Marianna has been described as a "demon of avarice and libidinousness." But Byron found that her hair had "the curl and colour of Lady Jersey...
...special memorial exhibition of water colour sketches by Chester Holmes Aldrich is now in progress at the Fogg Museum. The exhibition closes on February...