Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took place in the big, flat-faced brown stucco Spanish Embassy on the Avenue George V in Paris. But Don Manuel, who has been wanting to surrender since the Rebels took Teruel a year ago, flatly refused to leave the safety of Paris. Peace at any price was his line. General Vicente Rojo, Loyalist Chief of Staff who crossed over into France with the fall of Catalonia, also declined to go home. French and British diplomats applied pressure at this opportune time and the upshot was that Loyalist Spain at last agreed to reduce its conditions of surrender...
...Sistine Chapel, when the voting begins, 62 thrones with violet baldachins (canopies) will line the walls. Twice a day, with solemn prayers and oaths that they are following their highest duties, the Cardinals will mark their ballots, place them one at a time in a chalice. When one of them is elected Pope (by a two-thirds majority), he expresses his acceptance (if he feels worthy; some do not), chooses a name, dons a white soutane. The Cardinals pay him homage. All the baldachins except that of the new Pontiff are folded back to the walls. To show the crowds...
Graphic art has very rarely taken on the quality of music. It did so in the work of William Blake. At its best, Blake's line drawing has the airy movement and harmony of a string quartet. This is not all it has. On a few square inches of white paper Blake could and did put forms comparable in grandeur to the frescoes of Michelangelo. Few if any exhibitions this season had more artistic interest than a comprehensive show of Blake which opened last week at the Philadelphia Museum...
Blake's appearance was handsome, resolute and rather wild, with very large eyes. His theory of art excluded ordinary realism, involved an utter dependence on imagination and on clear and perfect line in rendering it. "All the copies, or pretended copies of Nature, from Rembrandt to Reynolds, prove that Nature becomes to its victim nothing but blots and blurs." What sources his work had were in Renaissance pictures which he knew through his own large collection of prints. His masterwork, done after he was 50, consisted of pencil and watercolor illustrations such as The Temptation...
Anschluss, the CzechoSlovak grab nor construction of the Siegfried Line was permitted to interfere with the road building, which will be continued until 8,500 miles are completed...