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...polished phrases came as a gloss upon the following situation. The enforcement of the status quo has been taken out of the hands of the League, for the moment, and is being attempted by making "regional security agreements" among the powers (see INTERNATIONAL). If these agreements fail, the powers are likely to return to the League and to something resembling the Protocol. If they are successful, Germany will almost certainly be brought within the League, and the assistance of the League made use in administering the regional compact treaties...
...girl touched the leader on the flank. The horse stretched on the runway like a great cat, launched its four hoofs into the air and, for an imperceptible second, hung suspended so, in the image of Pegasus, a steed thrown sunward- then curved heavily, fiercely down burying its gloss in the brown water of a tank to the noise of a splash, a drum stroke, a great shout. Said the showman: "Often agents of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have come to stop us, and many have left saying that in their opinion this...
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...
...lias for some time been known to the musical intelligenzia through the English edition. It is perhaps the first authoritative work to face frankly the facts of Wagner's life without malice and with a genuine admiration for both the man and his work, but with no effort to gloss the occasionally distasteful phases of the man's character...
...replacement of the true emphasis is generally in order. But at the present rate of progress it will a very long time indeed before the majority of students come to college with serious purposes and before the majority of colleges give their graduates anything more than a delicately superficial gloss of intellectual cultivation...