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...generation ago glass was cut to make it sparkle, concealing greyness and flaws in the crystal. Today, such firms as Orrefors in Sweden and Steuben in the U. S. produce glass so flawless that it can be cut to contrast a silhouetted design against clear, elusive crystal. By an optical illusion, the cuts appear as bas-relief. Steuben's skilled craftsmen took the commissioned artists' sketches, blew and engraved every piece by hand. Prices ranged from $400 for Jean Hugo's classical urn with centaur and unicorn to $1,000 for Henri Matisse's Oriental piper...
...Larry and Beckman, won their way to the top with two radically different types of play. Beekman has become almost a legond an the hardest hitting titlist in the history of the game, while Larry's claim to fame lies in amazing accuracy and endurance. Dixon and Rawlins are flawless stylists; the former was one of the earliest of Crimson squash luminaries produced by Harry Cowics...
...execution of the book is not flawless; Sandburg's method of filing and attacking his material by subject as well as by chronological batches seems to have caused a few unconscious repetitions. A few-but very few-allusions will remain unclear to readers who are not students of the period. There is at times a certain bleakness...
...hilly little Principality of Lippe-Detmold since 1849. Nobody in The Netherlands had ever heard of the Prince before his engagement to Juliana was announced, but all knew that he must fit the proper specifications of a Prince Consort. He must be of royal blood, a Protestant, of flawless character, in perfect health. He was all that, but he also proved to have a few rather mild modern ideas. He liked cocktails, he was fond of speeding. He was said to have lost his head a bit when he suddenly found himself minus debts and with a yearly allowance...
...trivial with the towering, the bitter with the sweet, as the essential Perfect Woman; married, raising a family, standing at the center of its vicissitudes, learning, at the end, to "believe at last with whole heart in all the dark splendor, all the terrible beauty of the world." Her flawless marriage darkens and dulls, her bachelor friend is lost to death, found again in spirit, her husband dissolves into alcohol and she brings him through, her daughter dies in childbed, the Lusitania sinks, the promising son turns out disappointingly, Harding is elected, widowed Emily Fenwick meets...