Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...applause of the patrons of Christie was quite in the best tradition. It has always been the habit of the fashionable world to applaud the picture of the late Mr. Romney. That the works of his immortal betters went for prices that are commonly paid for art calendars, iron lawn-dogs, and imitation ikons was merely one more illustration of the fact that time will tell-lies. "Now," said a critic, commenting, in 1802, upon the death of Artist Romney, "he belongs to the ages." That statement is applied to all popular painters at death, but in the case...
...wind blew cool over a little, wrapped head lying on the lawn; serpentinely swayed a rope dangling from above, its lower end knotted about the lady's slender alabastine neck. No moon shone on that July night last week...
...When the poet who shattered Duse's heart reclines upon the velvet coverings of his fantastic bed, a painting of himself as a leper leers down at him in a manner which he is said to find "exquisite." When the firebrand who seized Fiume strides out upon his lawn, the dreadnaught Puglia, placed there high and dry by the grateful Italian Government, affords him a milieu in which to pace the quarter deck of his extravagant soul. The home of d' Annunzio is a nestling spot for the prodigious and the absurd. That no spiritually played piano...
...dreadnaught high and dry on his lawn...
Five men on the University tennis team will make the trip to Haverford, Pa., at the end of next week, in order to compete for the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Championship. The tournament will be held on the grass courts of the Merion Cricket Club, beginning on June...