Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhat irresolutely Japanese North China Chief-of-Staff Colonel Takashi Sakai said that Japan had given the Chinese Government until June 20 to carry out the demands, but might extend this period of grace. "We intend to say nothing more," Col. Sakai suavely concluded, "other than to express our hope...
Four centuries of bafflement over the expression Leonardo da Vinci put on a face in a picture the world has come to know as the Mona Lisa would be ended by a few facts about the fat-cheeked woman sitting smugly against the sea-green setting of winding water and...
*To Walter Pater the expression meant, in a famed paragraph in his Renaissance, that: ''Hers is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh...
Louis Bromfield, who once excited both critics and readers by his precocious promise and then reneged by turning out thin stuff, last fortnight produced a story that was a bit too thick. Even to readers who know little or nothing about Author Bromfield's own career, The Man Who...
In the fourteenth century in Italy "Scenes from the Life of Christ" show a change in expression which foreshadows the new painting of Giotto. In the fifteenth in the Low Countries a "Book of Hours" is already a part of Flemish painting. Thus the story of this essentially mediaeval art...