Word: grecian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smaller statues, a torso and a so-called Narcissus, and two fine fragments showing a battle of Greeks and Amazons from a Roman sarcophagus of the third century A. D. In the remaining spaces are grouped several Attic grave reliefs and a number of heads, notably a wrestler, a Grecian matron, and a woman of Palmyra. Against the window is an urn, a third century lekythos...
Trapped in so painfully trite a triangle, Another Dawn'?, cast coolly do their theatrical best. Ian Hunter, in what is apparently an air-conditioned oasis, is properly stoic. A raging sirocco does not discourage Miss Francis from exhibiting her usual sweeping evening gowns and Grecian neckline. Typical shot: Errol Flynn athletically clearing some dunes of a large number of hostile Bedouins. You Can't Beat Love (RKO). Only effective method of waking up Lawyer Jimmy Hughes (Preston Foster) in the morning is for his browbeaten butler Jasper (Herbert Mundin) loudly to dare...
...university and wants $10,000,000 more, is so determined a money-getter that he has become a Pittsburgh legend. He once walked into a meeting of Westinghouse Electric executives, planked a pottery vase down before startled Board Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson, recited Keats's Ode to a Grecian Urn, and walked out with...
...arrived on a Sunday afternoon and the entire population seemed to be in the narrow streets either promenading, nursing their babies or washing clothes. I went up to the first old man I saw whose nose seemed sufficiently Grecian and tried to say a few words, but with no success. Then I approached a woman drawing water from the well, but here intuition must have given different information from what I asked for, because she called what I think was her husband, and not even my American pasport seemed to quiet his fury...
Because to the British mind a nude woman is not unseemly so long as she is disguised as a lifeless ornament in a fishpond or a Grecian statuet, Britons who want to see a comely naked woman can do so by visiting the "nonstop reviews" at London's Windmill Theatre which for five years have included undressed tableaux...