Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skip the trip to the farm. "I told all my friends I was going to see a queen," sobbed Cheryl. "I've never seen a real, live queen!" But King Paul kept his date, and, as his 18-car motorcade stopped in front of the Smiths' frame house, Cheryl began to cheer up. "Cadillacs, Cadillacs," she sighed, as the King climbed out of his Lincoln. "Nothing but Cadillacs...
...offices of TIME'S Letters department there is a spot known as the "Poet's Corner." Thousands of people every year find occasion and reason to write letters to TIME. A good many of these writers feel the urge to frame their inspired praise or protest in verse form. When such a verse letter comes in, the "Poet's Corner" replies in kind. The reply is usually written by Gwyneth Kahn, one of the eight writers in the Letters department, who quickly shifts from her normal prose technique to verse form on these occasions...
...wealth and position. Mr. Flood's even perspective, whether it be laid to ignorance of any other setting, or correctly, I think, to his maturity, is refreshing in its calm acceptance, rather than scorn or worship, of the club at Harvard, debut rituals, codes of tradition. In the social frame which the novel gives its characters, there is far more depth than in the characters themselves...
...second-generation Steinway was responsible for some 45 pioneering patents, some of them so revolutionary that one of his pianos caused almost riotous excitement at the Paris exposition of 1867. The Steinway's most important innovation: the combination in a grand piano of a rigid cast-iron frame with "overstringing." The first permitted near doubling of string-tension. The second carried the treble strings diagonally across the center of the soundboard, which then amplified them as much as it did the long bass strings. The resulting increase in strength and power made the Steinway a world standard...
...Arthur Sullivan, Maurice Evans does his usual deft job of playing Maurice Evans-a personage hardly sufficient to hold the stage against the powerful presence of Robert Morley. As W. S. Gilbert, Morley fairly strides out of the frame, like an ancestral portrait from Ruddigore...