Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photograph other jungle life, for the New York Zoological Park, Curator Lee S. Crandall left Manhattan last week. At Port Moresby, Papua, he will make up his field expedition of habitants and natives. Particular end of his quest is the "Rudolf," largest and most gorgeous bird of paradise. When it is not drifting between twilit trees, it hangs upside down, its feathers swaying about like the chiffon drapes of a young girl's party dress...
...hilltop of one of the many hills on the ranch, where they live, is crowned by beautiful buildings of Spanish architecture surrounded by beautiful gardens of ever-blooming, gorgeous flowers and orchards of orange, peach and cherry trees. The interior of these houses, one of which presents the aspect of an old cathedral in Southern Spain, and the other three-guest houses*-are furnished and finished to harmonize with the exterior of these beautiful buildings. Old doors and door frames, mantels, beds, tables, cabinets, priceless wood carvings, paintings, tapestries from famous places in Italy, Spain and France of the 13th...
Professor Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter, archeologist, mystic, delights in huge canvases and brilliant colors. His gnarled and twisted monsters, weird dwarfs, beautiful fairy princesses march in gorgeous pageant across the walls of his exhibits. Four years ago Painter Roerich gathered together some scientifically-minded artist friends, his wife, his son George, (Harvard Orientalist) and set out on an expedition into Asia to get inspiration and information about tribal customs and religions. For three years he kept in touch with the home office, his Roerich Museum, in Manhattan. Then for a year all was silence. Last week, while friends feared...
...that of the quarrel over a girl waged between Rafli, King of the Beggars, and the Caliph of Bagdad. But through it all runs the strange, sweeping play of Hassan, the Confectioner. In a rare illusive manner Flecker has told the fable of this unhappy man, himself in love. Gorgeous colors distract the eye, enchanting verse lays its spell upon the ear; it is a spectacle, but a strange rich legend that rises to something more than mere pageantry...
...figure of Emperor Frederick III in Vienna Cathedral, ordered a year ago by the Germanic Museum, is now completed and will soon be shipped. This is one of the richest and most decorative pieces of flamboyant Gothic sculpture of the second half of the fifteenth century. The Emperor, in gorgeous vestment, with crown, imperial orb and sceptre, is standing under a vaulted canopy the front of which contains a relief of St. Christopher with the Christ child. Around the Emperor are grouped the emblems of his sovereignty and coats of arms of the Empire, the Hapsburg dynasty. Upper and Nether...