Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HEART AND MY FLESH-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). The Story. Theodosia Bell "was delicately modeled with strong slender limbs, swift in a game, quick-witted at play. Her red-brown hair hung in a ong braid or was twined braided about her head. Her fingers were small and thin, bent strangely about a fiddle, were quick among the fiddle strings, weighted with music." She grew up in a Southern town, a town in which the strong rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening...
...that time he had achieved an enormous reputation among critics & connoisseurs. His lithographs,* especially those of prizefighters and evangelists, had been greatly praised when hung in galleries or reproduced in magazines. Now 195 of them have been collected and published in a book...
...London) a plane slid lazily along the air, slower, stalling; the lazy tail began to drop. Such weary antics precede the tail spin, horrible whirl to death of many an aviator, among the heaviest hazards of aviation. Spectators thrilled. But the plane above Cricklewood did not spin. Instead it hung in the air under perfect lateral control, nosed down a trifle, regained flying speed...
...Some of the townspeople who remembered his long, bony face, his big, brown, scaly hands, remembered also hearing that when John Kane had finished with swabbing clapboard or pillar, he would go home and paint pictures in his bedroom. The critics, who saw his "Scene from the Scottish Highlands" hung with 119 other U. S. paintings, could believe that its creator had never attended art school. They wondered whether it was an eye for a picture or a nose for a news story that had caused the committee to honor his effort. There was no easy facility of technique...
Beginning Jan. 9 the pictures will be shown in Brooklyn for six weeks. After this the 280 pictures by foreign artists will be hung for a time in San Francisco...