Word: litted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unlimited fund to draw on, could decorate a house like Stanford White. There was a certain discreet voluptuousness in his patterning of rugs and hangings of sombre and yet burning tones, his use, for contrast, of tapestries stiff with gold threads, of smoldering paintings and shawls dipped in scarlet, lit with mannered passion like suspended flame. As an architect his imagination rioted into turrets and cupolas, a certain Moorish richness of proportion, avoiding the florid by a breath and a promise. He made a great deal of money. He increased his regular income by bringing over shiploads of antiques...
Casual, unobtrusive, the Marquis Panlucci Decaboli, private secretary to Premier Mussolini, boarded a wagon-lit at Rome two months ago, and was whisked toward Spain -ostensibly to visit his father-in-law, the Italian Ambassador at Madrid. The Marquis, a diplomat of talent, force, parts contrived by the aid of the Spanish news censor to escape all but purely social notice in the press of Madrid. Many a woolgathering foreign spy failed even to note the astute Marquis's occasional late suppers with Foreign Minister Yanguas of Spain, after which the Marquis occasionally remained until near dawn. Last week...
...President is a diligent reader of the U. S. press. It is doubtful whether he scans the British press with equal thoroughness, doubtful therefore whether his eye lit on a passage in British papers saying...
...World Council Fire was lit. There was a parade of the 39 nations carrying flags-but there were only 38 flags; Fraulein Katharina Hertwig, the only German delegate present, declared she was a Nationalist and refused to carry the flag of the German Republic, the "Socialist flag" which had been provided...
...with due ceremony, that somewhat mystical reddish mister, Dan Russell the fox, with impudent wisdom seeking sanctuary from a choir of hounds. There is a mighty steeplechase with the bookies hawking odds, the hoofs thundering and two poor jocks killed. There is lambing-time, on the spring hills thinly lit with frost and starlight; and coursing the whippets after Pussy, the dodging hare; and benign old gentlemen in red coats "hacking bitterly at small white balls and saying very evil phrases...