Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sombre furniture and dark blue upholstery in his office which nothing in official Washington approaches, not even the redecorated White House. His apartment on Massachusetts Avenue is hung, not with an Art Collection, but with pictures of lovely women, unmistakable gentlemen, young girls, old ladies, painted because they were fit subjects for fine art by Vermeer, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Romney, Lawrence, Hals, Rembrandt, and bought by Andrew Mellon because life is a fine art and such things belong to it naturally when you can afford them. Something of the same instinct that acquired the Mellon paintings is also seen...
...beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff for fantastic poppets; Ahab, the neighbor Thumb's bull is fit to make a virile familiar. In answer to her prayers that the Prince of Darkness send her a tutor in the black arts, there appears nightly a demon disguised in the swarthy skin and gold hooped earrings of a pirate...
...Bright College years" needs just such an improvement. The melody and harmonies could not be improved upon, and the words are excellent in sentiment and in selection; but the words do not always fit the music as nicely as they should. While a Marion Talley can easily and artistically spread one word or one syllable of a word over from three to thirty-three notes, it gives a rather awkward effect if many inexperienced and uncultured voices attempt to do likewise in particular when the syllable is not euphonious in itself...
...been invented," there were gods in the Celestial Halls, and on earth Satyrs, serenely beautiful. These Satyrs were the first and best to cultivate the earth and the arts of music, weaving, medicine, meteorology. In fact they grew so wise that the Great Father (head god) in a fit of jealousy cursed them to infecundity. But gods thrive on the fear and flattery of mortals. So Great Father thought up subservient man for their entertainment, molded him of refuse. The dying Satyrs tried in vain to teach their lore to this tribe of puny and hornless creatures. But the earth...
...Tate has studied his character closely. In Jackson he finds something akin to madness-perhaps the madness of a genius. Jackson has sometimes been compared to Cromwell, and though the analogy does not fit very closely, Mr. Tate shows that Jackson studied the Bible even more thoroughly than he did Napoleon...