Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...palette knife in order to give to them their characteristic ostentatious appearance. The English scene "Punting" is mellow toned with a richness in quality in spite of the limited palette. From a difffferent point of view an experimental note can be found in the water colors of grave yard scenes. Though color is generally interesting to associate it with grave stone is uncommon. The same idea is to be found in one of two decorative pictures, painted to harmonize with a specific room...
...Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra...
...Grave Alice smiled with pleasure. She presented Il Duce with a copy of her father's translation of Dante's Divinia Commedia-a work that had aroused enthusiasm at Harvard in the 80's and had given a great impulse to the study of Dante in the U. S. Signor Mussolini gravely thanked her for thus honoring him and, in a cordial conversation, expressed his great admiration for her poet-father...
...failure to form the letter and play the music of the opposing college that we show a lack of courtesy, but I feel also in singing Yale songs when we are playing Holy Cross, for instance, we are using a "high hat" procedure which is a grave discourtesy...
Evolution is a great thing. The monkey who swings by his tail and throws cocoanuts evolves into the man who walks upright and gets hit by the cocoanut; the callow Freshman evolves into the potent, grave, and reverend Senior; an Intercolleiate Dance evolves into a riot, and even music itself has evolved from the soft tinkling of rude strings to the raucous squawk of the saxaphone...