Word: frame
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...picture comes from the collection of Sir Charles Robinson and was publicly exhibited in 1880 at the Royal Academy, in 1908 at the Burlington, Fine Arts Club, and in 1913 at the Grafton Galleries, London. The original carved frame of an elaborate Gothic design is presented in all its beauty. The picture is signed beneath the figure of the Angel of the Annunciation on a cartellino: Maestre jude Burgos pitor." The picture is made up of two doors of a triptych altar-piece and the figures are painted in temperaon a gold ground punctured with elaborate foliated work...
...might well have been buried long ago. One continually looked for a deus-ex-machina to appear, but he evidently was not so disposed. The settings were attractive and the chorus also, but even these essentials were not sufficient to make one leave the play-house in any frame of mind, but that he had been gulled. Who was to blame was a natural query...
...Russian novelists, but if this is the result of any such reading, it is to be highly commended. Perhaps equally successful is O. W. Larkin '18 in "Imagination in a Pawnshop," which with the skill and the tantalizing of Frank Stockton Smith leaves us in anything but a satisfied frame of mind, but we are convinced that this author can write...
...Library twenty-five of the more important volumes from the 'Shelf of Old Books' which she described so delightfully in her essays published under that title in 1894. In their new home they can never exert the charm --of which they were after all but a part of the frame--that made Mrs. Fields's home for a third of a century the most-sought literary mecca for those who knew their way about Boston. They will, however, find some old and many new friends on the securer shelves of the library, where they add a fresh distinction...
...goal on last year's team, coached the goal guards. The water which had been thrown on the pavement of the handball courts froze, giving an excellent ice surface to shoot from. A new feature which added greatly to accuracy in shooting was the introduction of a wooden frame supporting a target with a red metal disc in the centre. The disc rings when the puck strikes it, and is so arranged as to let the puck go through. The shooting was accurate for the first practice of the year. A. R. Bancroft '17 took the men for a three...