Word: ish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the street released Cyrano from a life of wenches, duels, shames, brawls, intoxications, fruitless ambitions, precious vanities - all of which, save the first, he actually blamed on his nose. "Most of our Academicians," opined Napoleon, "are writers whom one admires with a yawn." His biographer Merezhkovsky (pronounced Meer-ish-kawf-skee) is not such a writer. A strange trilogy has "made" Merezhkovsky - a trilogy distinguished by vividness, mysticism and symbolism. It consists of three novels, each one glorifying some significant man into an Antichrist - Julian the Apostate, Leo nardo da Vinci, Peter the Great. But these are novels...
...keeps abreast of the foibles of the art world, but turns from them to pulsating scenes about him. No one is bewildered by Davidson sculpture. He builds no weird convocations of planes, no fever ish conceits of form. Like the sculptors of the Roman tribunes, his primary con cern is the search for character. The roster of Davidson subjects includes Anatole France, Feodor Chaliapin, Charles Gates Dawes, John Joseph Pershing, Wellington Koo, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order...
...bent her huge head in self-conscious sorrow. When the brass horns shouted, she flapped the floor with a map of Africa, her right ear. For violins and cellos, ehe rolled her small bright eye. Then, when the crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone's. In wet clothes and a panic the minstrels scurried off. Squirrels. On the roof of a house in Canandaigua, N. Y., there stood a fat squirrel who looked like "Babe" Ruth...
...Mesopotamia, home of Nebuchadnezzar, birthplace of Abraham, the joint digging of the Brit- ish Museum and the University of Pennsylvania was continued. Finds included records of kings unknown to history, who reigned in 3500 B. C. Their graves contained hoards of gold and copper spearheads (in bundles), chisels, arrows (by the quiverful), a mace, axheads, adzes, beads and pendants of lapis lazuli; a gold vanity box, complete with tweezers; a gaming board...
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