Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Maharaja of Patiala, Maj. General His Highness Bhupindra Singh. Hon. Aide de Camp since 1922 to George V. (Deep-chested, tremendous, with close-braided beard and heavy-lidded, magnetic eyes, expression and reputation sensual and sinister; from beneath his turban peep a pair of earrings each consisting of two...
Artist Brown draws as he talks, crudely, positively, in a manner that admits of no erasures, no changes. He applies color in broad flat washes. Critics find his matter pleasing, his manner undeveloped. They take refuge in the safe expression, "promising."
Many a compositor and newsman keeps a scrapbook of the most devastating misprints that come to his eye, most of them unreprintable. But few collections, if any, can rival that of Louis N. Seitel of the Brooklyn Public Library who with serious purpose for ten years has combed books as...
The Author. Alan Patrick Herbert, 40, was a Wykehamist (went to school at Winchester), so he naturally went on to New College, Oxford, where he "took a first'' in Jurisprudence. During the War he served with the Royal Naval Division, was mentioned in despatches at Gallipoli, wounded in France. After...
". . . In the meantime I live and work and make music within the solitude of the Vittoriale, that I have donated. . . . Every room that I have ever carefully arranged, every object that I have ever chosen and made mine . . . has always been for me a means of self-expression, a medium...