Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Kensington's Yesterday," Miss Barbey has written a story, charming because of its air of starched lawns and embroidered silks, mahogany treads, and flower borders. The style echoes the tone quite beautifully--in all but the last sentence. The last sentence should be brocaded; instead it is backed with buckram...
...Siena Academy. Matteo painted several pictures representing the "Massacre of the Innocents," two of which are still preserved. A third is in the Naples Gallery. A mosaic by him of the same subject is on the floor of the Siena Cathedral, a rubbing of which is in the South Kensington Museum. In the same cathedral there are two other pavements by Matteo. Other famous pictures by the master are in San Domenico at Siena, in the National Gallery, London, and in the Academy of Arts at Siena, as well as in other public and private collections...
...year, and especially to "A Late Spring," a story in which Mr. Cuthbert Wright subtly analyzes the emotional crisis of a young man who takes himself very, very seriously, and falls in love at first sight with a girl who is already engaged. He lives in the Bronx, or Kensington, or Evansville--one cannot tell; he has been to school in England or America, and to Harvard, Oxford, William and Mary, or the University of Edinburgh. His great experience occurs in a box at the opera in a city of some importance, and it must have happened some years...
...White Infantry patrols report large enemy force, estimated at about two brigades, re-enforced, approaching Arlington Heights from the north. The 1st Infantry has taken up a defensive posi- tion through Arlington from Town Hall, along Broadway and Pleasant street, to Pleasant and Kensington streets, both inclusive. The 3d Infantry is at Payson Park. Our advance cavalry is retiring on this point...
...Turner wing of the Tate Gallery, make the study of Turner far more comprehensive than is possible in the case of any other of the greater masters of painting. Besides the collections in the Tate Gallery, Turner has many important works in the National Gallery, the Kensington Museum, the British Museum, and in the collections of Oxford and Cambridge uni- versities, which will be accessible for study in this course...