Word: fountains
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...other hand in the "Fountain of Trevi" we find tones that contrast and mingle and as a result create an atmospheric sensation. The cooler tones are employed on the figures of a fountain while the warm yellow and orange of the palazzo in the background are contrasted to the former with successful result...
...Palace, no brilliant uniforms; King, Dictator, Delegates were all dressed in sombre morning attire. The only splash of color was supplied by the Princes of the Church in their Cardinal red. This drab setting was to emphasize the fact that the Assembly is a working body and not a fountain of useless rhetoric...
...Queen Victoria made stipulations that the head of that institution would not accept; and so the young Prince had to go to the "House" (Christ Church). And many a noble lord with erroneous ideas about his own importance has been reduced to equality by a summary ducking in a fountain or a "de-bagging" (trousers taken off in public) humiliation...
...thing for Irish households, soft-shoe dancing and mother. All these things dipped in good jokes and not very good music make up a musical comedy called The Merry Malones. Mr. Cohan syrups the situation with a romance of the son of a billionaire who becomes temporarily a soda fountain clerk in order to woo a poor Irish maiden. He pokes fun at his own plot shamelessly for folk in the good seats, and interrupts it incessantly with sentimental love ballads for the masses in the gallery. All this is done with ineffable geniality and unceasing speed. Folksy customers will...
...Duties. Typical of the increases are the following: magnetos, which paid seven francs a kilogram, are now assessed 80 francs a kilogram ? increase 1,100%; fountain pens, admitted on a tariff of five francs a pen, must pay 80% on their value; electrical equipment for automobiles must meet a levy increased by 800%; magneto breaker points and distributors, 1,300% increase; spark plugs, 800% increase. It is to be noted that all these articles are manufactured by Germany...