Word: frame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human frame stripped of its flushing skin...
Toulouse-Lautrec loved life, but few of the living. His own ugliness was stamped on his frame; why should he gloss the deformity that twitched in the minds of those he saw, revealed by an expression, a turn of a head, an angle of a body? He painted with the bitter, malign mastery of a superb satirist. His three chef-d'?uvres?Le Moulin Rouge, Femme dans un Atelier, La Pierreuse?were included in the Manhattan exhibit...
...brilliant performances of his all too short life. In the end that very virtue which was the cause of his phenomenal rise from a newsboy in two streets of Minneapolis to President of three of our largest universities was the cause of his death. Even his tremendous athletic frame could not stand the strains he placed upon it. Work was his idol, his mettle, and finally his master...
...quite a Kreisler fan, as you no doubt have already surmised, and I would appreciate it very much if you would favor me with a good press proof of this cut or any other sort of a reproduction that I may mount and frame...
...Governor insisted that the whole thing was a "frame-up" and that advantage had been taken of the "unsophisticated nature" of his son, whom he had asked to deliver the pardon...